Slivovitz and Everyday Nationalism

The Analysis of Slovene Newspapers in Interwar Yugoslavia

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ID11048902
AutoresJernej Mlekuž (0000-0001-6918-1194, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume52
Fascículo3
Páginas685-700
Data de publicação2024-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/nps.2023.20
OpenAlexW4367181941
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas38

By analyzing selected Slovene newspapers, the article discusses the role of slivovitz in the reproduction of everyday nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia. The article is based on an analysis of texts containing the word slivovka (the Slovene word for slivovitz or plum spirit) that appeared in three major Slovene newspapers and three minor Slovene pro-Yugoslav newspapers in the period 1919–1945. In the period in question, slivovitz did not (yet) have the role of a signifier of the Yugoslav state, the Yugoslav nation and other elements associated with Yugoslav identity, but it was becoming part of the “structure of national feeling” – the specific experience of life in a given time and place that was common to the Yugoslav nation. Slivovitz, frequently included in repetitive and everyday habits, practices and assumptions, began to define the Yugoslav nation through a specific culture of drinking and drinks and became a component of this everyday, largely unnoticed reproduction of the Yugoslav nation

Aesthetics · Art · Everyday life · Feeling · Interwar period · Literature · Media studies · National identity · Nationalism · Newspaper · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · World War II · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · European Cultural and National Identity · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Psychology