Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Balkanologie
Author: Marko Živković
Institution: University of Chicago
Language: French
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W266164567