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AT THE EDGE OD EUROPE: BALKAN AS A EUROPEAN PERIPHERY

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Karásek M.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2012
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vol. 60
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issue 5
539 – 555
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The goal of this article is to describe and explain the ways how Balkan is constructed and perceived as a meta-geographical and metaphorical concept. The author discusses the flexibility of demarcation of the Balkan borders in the mental maps and the flexibility of the category of the Balkan as well. In this article it is assumed that the relation between “Europe” and “Balkan” is in fact the relation between the power centre and the periphery. Thus Balkan is orientalised and quasi-colonialized by the “Europe” through the mechanisms related to the power discourses, ways of reporting, thinking and perceiving the Balkan. Moreover, the author suggests that the final consequence of such discourses is manifested in the policy of the European institutions towards some Balkan countries. The author ́s argumentation is based on the comparison of orientalist and balkanist discourses and on the reactions to postcolonial studies that come from the Balkan researchers themselves.
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THE BALKANS AS A BLIND SPOT OF MULTICULTURALITY. SPACE IN THE BALKAN CINEMA (Balkan ako slepa skvrna multikulturality. Priestor v balkanskom filme)

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Dudkova J.
World Literature Studies
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2010
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vol. 2 (19)
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issue 1
40-60
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The paper deals with transformations of the traditional Balkan identity via constructions of cinematic space in some contemporary films about the Balkans. It analyses some typical as well as some innovative methods of space construction of the Balkans in Balkan cinema, and points out their structural embeddedness in Balkanism. Balkanism is shown as a structurally non-dialogical but still predominant paradigm of space construction even in some non-traditional cinematic works, which leads to the acceptance of a recent notion of the Balkan (cinematic) genre elaborated by Nevena Dakovic in her recent book (2008) on this subject. The notion of genre reduces earlier emphasis on power relations determining representation of the Balkans while still including the notion of limits that organise these representations.
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MROŻKOVA „ZMLUVA“ A (NE)PRÍTOMNOSŤ OBRAZU STREDNEJ EURÓPY V SLOVENSKÝCH TELEVÍZNYCH ADAPTÁCIÁCH 1990 – 1993

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Dudková J.
World Literature Studies
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2019
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vol. 11
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issue 3
102 – 116
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This article analyses the specific case of the Slovak television adaptation of Sławomir Mrożek’s lesser-known stage play The Contract (1986). The play was written before the fall of communism by the famous Polish exile playwright, and was shot for Slovak television in 1992 by the ex-Yugoslav director Goran Marojević. This resulted in multiple shifts in the meanings and visibility of various geopolitical concepts used in the play, including a reduction of references that could render the director’s origin more visible. The paper focuses especially on the replacement of significant references to Balkan and Orientalist discourse (which are parodically overused in the play) with the more readable concept of Central Europe (which stays unnamed in the play). In the final section, the paper also analyses the position of The Contract within the broader context of contemporary Slovak television production, which usually avoided Central European authors or direct images of Central Europe, but on the other hand added indirect references to the concept of Central Europe even to works which originally lacked them. The result in both cases was the frequent usage of allegorical meanings, masking or inversion that followed uncertainties typical for transition from the announcement of Soviet perestroika to (un)expected post-communist condition.
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BALKAN IDENTITY BETWEEN THE ORIENT AND EUROPE IN MILORAD PAVIĆ’S “DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS”

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Karásek M.
World Literature Studies
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2018
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vol. 10
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issue 1
39 – 49
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This article analyses the cultural, historical and religious contexts of Milorad Pavić’s post-modern novel “Dictionary of the Khazars”. Its aim is to analyse the role of Oriental, Balkan and European literary and folkloric motifs as the means of Pavić’s original narrative strategy. Another goal is to discuss whether Pavić’s employment of these motifs could be framed in terms of Gingrich’s concept of frontier Orientalism, or should be conceptualized by other categories. Pavić’s approach toward the Balkan’s common identity seems to be more likely based on the idea of a crossroad than the idea of “no man’s land” of liminal frontier area. The author discusses the accuracy of applying already existing theoretical concepts to Pavić’s works and tries to propose conceptual instruments that would enable to see the work of this postmodern writer in a more accurate manner.
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VÝCHOD A ZÁPAD

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Krno S.
Studia Politica Slovaca: časopis pre politické vedy, najnovšie politické dejiny a medzinárodné vzťahy
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2016
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vol. 9
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issue 1
118 – 130
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In his study, the author searches for the causes of polarized tension in our perception of the paired terms - East and West. He seeks reasons behind this acute dichotomy and points out the sources and manifestations of the so-called Orientalism and its specific form - Balkanism. Methodological blunders prevent us from reaching more deeply into the processes that are under way in two great Himalayan powers. China, which is no longer merely a developing country, has experienced a fourth decade of steady real economic growth. India has recently undergone massive changes, too.
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