Songs, Myths, Identity and Territory: Serbian Kosovo Epic as “Invented Tradition
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This article offers critical re-examination of the recent scholarship on the socalled Kosovo myth. This popular oral and literary tradition surrounding the Battle of Kosovo that the Serbs fought against the Turks in 1389 traditionally occupied central space in Serbian national narrative. By revisiting the formation of the Kosovo epic in the collections of Vuk Karadžić, the founder of modern Serbian culture, I trace his role in making Kosovo the foundational myth of the whole Serbian nation from the nineteenth-century surge in Romantic nationalism onwards. In particular, I scrutinize Karadžić’s editorial procedures as parts of a process of cultural inscription representing a cultural transformation that made the Kosovo epic an instance of the invention of national tradition in Eric Hobsbawm’s terms.
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the Kosovo epic / the Kosovo Myth / Serbian oral tradition / Serbian nationalism / Vuk KaradžićSource:
New Europe College Yearbook 2016-2017, 2018, 43-68Publisher:
- Bucharest : New Europe College
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IFDTTY - JOUR AU - Pavlović, Aleksandar PY - 2018 UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3368 AB - This article offers critical re-examination of the recent scholarship on the socalled Kosovo myth. This popular oral and literary tradition surrounding the Battle of Kosovo that the Serbs fought against the Turks in 1389 traditionally occupied central space in Serbian national narrative. By revisiting the formation of the Kosovo epic in the collections of Vuk Karadžić, the founder of modern Serbian culture, I trace his role in making Kosovo the foundational myth of the whole Serbian nation from the nineteenth-century surge in Romantic nationalism onwards. In particular, I scrutinize Karadžić’s editorial procedures as parts of a process of cultural inscription representing a cultural transformation that made the Kosovo epic an instance of the invention of national tradition in Eric Hobsbawm’s terms. PB - Bucharest : New Europe College T2 - New Europe College Yearbook 2016-2017 T1 - Songs, Myths, Identity and Territory: Serbian Kosovo Epic as “Invented Tradition SP - 43 EP - 68 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3368 ER -
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Pavlović, A.. (2018). Songs, Myths, Identity and Territory: Serbian Kosovo Epic as “Invented Tradition. in New Europe College Yearbook 2016-2017 Bucharest : New Europe College., 43-68. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3368
Pavlović A. Songs, Myths, Identity and Territory: Serbian Kosovo Epic as “Invented Tradition. in New Europe College Yearbook 2016-2017. 2018;:43-68. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3368 .
Pavlović, Aleksandar, "Songs, Myths, Identity and Territory: Serbian Kosovo Epic as “Invented Tradition" in New Europe College Yearbook 2016-2017 (2018):43-68, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3368 .