Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia

by Andrew Wachtel

Book Overview

This book focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a Yugoslav nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea ultimately failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state. The author argues that the collapse of multinational Yugoslavia and the establishment of separate uninational states did not result from the breakdown of the political or economic fabric of the Yugoslav state; rather, that breakdown itself sprang...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731810
• ISBN13: 9780804731812
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"