Too Much Character, Too Little Kultur

Serbian Jeremiads 1994-1995

Bibliographic Data

ID19052248
AuthorsMarko Živković (0000-0003-3875-2358, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume2
Issue2
Publication date1998-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBalkanologie (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1279-7952 • E-ISSN: 1965-0582
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/balkanologie.263
OpenAlexW266164567
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In that period, Serbian Jeremiads seemed to reach their “purest” form and became a ubiquitous, if not a dominant genre of social commentary that ranged from everyday talk to discourses of social scientists. Moreover, it is during that period that the Milošević regime makes a 180 degree turn that appropriates, preempts and « colonizes » the rhetorics and initiatives of the opposition Jeremiads by “simulating” their cultural criticism. Moreover, the talk about national character started to focus increasingly on the flip-side of the heroic Dinaric type. Thus Serbian Jeremiads of 1994-1995 can offer a valuable insight into the social tensions and political agendas struggling for supremacy in Milošević’s Serbia.The Jeremiads of 1994 and 1995 were used and discarded, marginalized and ridiculed, co-opted and silenced, and then finally robbed of agendas and rhetorics of the old generation of Serbian intelligentsia by a chameleon regime

Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Intelligentsia · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Serbian · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Law

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