Serbia's national movement of the 1980s and 1990s, the author suggests, was not the product of an ancient, immutable, and aggressive Serbian national identity; nor was it an artificial creation of powerful political actors looking to capitalize on its mobilizing power. Miller argues that cultural processes are too often ignored in favor of political ones; that Serbian intellectuals did work within a historical context, but that they were not slaves to the past. His subjects are Dobrica Ćosić (a novelist), Mića Popović (a painter) and Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz (a literary critic). These three influential Serbian intellectuals concluded by the late 1960s that communism had failed the Serbian people; together, they helped forge a new Serbian identity that fused older cultural imagery with modern conditions.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1:
Simina 9a in a New Yugoslavia
- Chapter 2: Nonconformist Initiations
- Chapter 3: Ćosić: Engagement and Disillusionment, 1956–1966
- Chapter 4: Drama and Politics: Mihiz in the Sixties
- Chapter 5:The Suicide and Rebirth of the Painting: Mića Popović, 1959–1974
- Chapter 6: Fragmented Serbia
- Chapter 7: Ćosić and Popović Return To Serbia
- Chapter 8: From Principle to Catharsis
- Chapter 9: The Children of Cain
- Chapter 10: The Limits of Revelation
- Chapter 11: The Legend of Simina 9a in Serbia’s Modern History
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Illustrations
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