Hammond - The Balkans and the West: constructing the European other, 1945-2003

THE BALKANS AND THE WEST

The Balkans and the West

Constructing the European Other, 19452003

Edited by

ANDREW HAMMOND

Swansea Institute, University of Wales

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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The Balkans and the west : constructing the European other, 1945-2003

1. English literature 20th century History and criticism Congresses 2. Balkan Peninsula Historiography Congresses 3. Balkan Peninsula Literatures 20th century History and criticism Congressess 4. Balkan Peninsula In literature Congresses 5. Europe, Western In literature Congresses

I. Hammond, Andrew

949.6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Balkans and the West : constructing the European other, 1945-2003 / edited by Andrew Hammond.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7546-3234-2 (alk. paper)

1. Balkan Peninsula Relations Europe, Western. 2. Europe, Western Relations Balkan Peninsula. 3. Europe Politics and government 1945

I. Hammond, Andrew, 1967

DR38.3.E85B35 2004

949.6dc22

2004003904

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-3234-4 (hbk)

Contents

Andrew Hammond

Jim Evans

Felicity Rosslyn

Michael Haynes

Andrew Hammond

Timothy Less

Alex Drace-Francis

Celia Hawkesworth

Yonka Krasteva

Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers

Fatos Lubonja

Galia I. Valtchinova

Tom Gallagher

Riikka Kuusisto

Philip M. Taylor

Nevena Dakovi

Nevena Dakovi is currently Associate Professor of Film Studies and Head of the Department of Theory and History at the University of Belgrade. She is the author of Melodrama is Not a Genre (1995) and CO Multimedia Dictionary of the Film Theorists (2002); she is the co-editor of Gender and Media (1998) and Mediated Identities (2000) (both with D. Derman and K. Ross). She publishes widely in national and international reviews, and has lectured at, amongst other places, Oxford, Riga, Ankara, Istanbul, Kent and Madison.

Alex Drace-Francis is a lecturer in Romanian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He has published numerous articles on themes including British images of Romania in the Cold War period and the concept of regional identity in South-East Europe, and has recently completed his PhD thesis, entitled Literature, Modernity, Nation: The Case of Romania, 18291890.

Jim Evans is pursuing doctoral research at Oriel College, University of Oxford, where he completed his undergraduate and masters degrees. He is writing a thesis on the British involvement in the settlement of the Yugoslav question in the latter stages and immediate aftermath of the Second World War, with particular emphasis on British perceptions of the Yugoslav national question during the period.

Tom Gallagher holds the Chair of Ethnic Conflict and Peace at Bradford University. He has published widely on the role of nationalism in a South-East Europe currently experimenting with democracy, as well as on individual Balkan countries, particularly Romania. Outcast Europe: The Balkans from the Ottomans to Miloevi, 17891989 was published by Routledge in 2001. Distrusting Democracy: Romania since 1989 was published by Hurst in 2003. The Balkans since the Cold War: From Tyranny to Tragedy was published by Routledge in May of that year.

Andrew Hammond is a lecturer in twentieth-century literature at the Swansea Institute, University of Wales. In both research and teaching, he has pursued interests in modernism, identity, exile and cultural representation, with a focus on the genres of travel literature and fiction. He has published a number of articles dealing with the construction of the Balkans in nineteenth- and twentieth-century travel writing, and is currently editing Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict for Routledge.

Celia Hawkesworth is Senior Lecturer in Serbian and Croatian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Her main publications include Ivo Andri: Bridge between East and West (1984), Voices in the Shadows. Womens Writing in Serbia and Bosnia (2000, editor), and A History of Central European Womens Writing (2001). She regularly publishes literary translations, including several works by Ivo Andri and Dubravka Ugrei.

Michael Haynes teaches in the School of Humanities at the University of Wolverhampton. He is a comparative economic historian with a special interest in the former Soviet bloc and the Balkans. He has written widely on both development issues and problems of identity in present-day Europe and in the recent past. He is an occasional contributor to the Guardian on these issues, while his academic essays have been published in several languages, including Bulgarian, Hungarian and Serbo-Croat.

Yonka Krasteva is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Veliko Turnovo. She has published widely on modern American literature and culture and on issues of cultural encounter, especially between West and East. She was awarded Fulbright research grants at the University of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and at Stanford University. The publication of the first edition of her book, The West and the American Dream: Studies in Twentieth Century American Literature, was sponsored by the American Cultural Centre in Sofia.

Riikka Kuusisto is a lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. She completed her doctoral degree in International Relations in 1999. She has published texts on the Western major power definitions of war in the Persian Gulf, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Kosovo, as well as on the war on terrorism. Her current research interests include foreign policy rhetoric, metaphors, enemy images and peace and conflict studies. She teaches courses in qualitative methodology and International Relations theory.

Timothy Less is a political risk analyst of the Balkans and the Former Soviet Union with the American ratings agency Dun & Bradstreet and is currently preparing a doctoral thesis on the communist period in Albania at the School of Slavonic Studies, University College London.

Fatos Lubonja is an independent writer, editor and human rights activist, living and working in his native Albania. He was imprisoned for seventeen years under Enver Hoxha for agitation and propaganda, and since 1991 has been involved in the democratic movement in Albania, being General Secretary of the Albanian Helsinki Committee and a leader of the Forum of Democracy. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including