Junáci a oběti: diskurzivní strategie srbského nacionalismu v 80. a 90. letech 20. století

• Authors: Jakub Žaba

Title variants

EN

Heroes and victims: discursive strategies of the Serbian nationalism in the 1980s and 1990s

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses two discursive figures that provided Serbian nationalism in the period of the Jugoslav crisis in the 1980s and 1990s with a pseudohistorical framework. The first was the Kosovo myth, which was used not only in the Kosovo conflict but also in Bosnia and Hercegovina when Bosnian Muslims/Bosniaks were identified with the mythical Turks. The second mythical figure was the notion of the unprecedented suffering of the Serbian nation in the 20th century, which led to repeated comparisons with European Jews and their fate during the Second World War. The article attempts to deconstruct the moral message of both myths, and the historical context of their origin and function they performed in political conflicts.

Keywords

EN

war in Yugoslavia; ethnic conflict; politics of memory; Serbian nationalism; Kosovo myth; Holocaust

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 107
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 373-397
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jakub Žaba

• Slovanský přehled, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic