Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary

by Tomislav Z. Longinovi, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne, et al.

Book Overview

Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing 'the serbs' as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural imaginaries and rhetorical mechanisms that inform nationalist discourses more broadly. Tomislav Z. Longinovic points to the Gothic associations of violence, blood, and soil in the writings of many intellectuals and politicians during the 1990s, especially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350394
• ISBN13: 9780822350392
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"