Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Belgrade
2 Serbia's Position in European Geo-Political Imaginings
3 Highlanders and Lowlanders
4 Tender-hearted Criminals and the Reverse Pygmalion
5 Serbian Jeremiads: Too Much Character, Too Little Kultur
6 Glorious Pasts and Imagined Continuities: The Most Ancient People
7 Narrative Cycles: From Kosovo to Jadovno
8 "The Wish to be a Jew," or the Power of the Jewish Trope
9 Garbled Genres: Conspiracy Theories, Everyday Life and the Poetics of Opacity
10 Mille vs. Transition: a super informant in the slushy swamp of Serbian politics
Conclusion: Chrono-tropes and Awakenings
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Promotional Information

Public discourse and everyday life during the last days of Yugoslavia

About the Author

Marko Živković is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta.

Reviews

"I completely agree that dreams are 'a machine to think with', and Serbian Dreambook is a powerful machine indeed." Robert Rotenberg, DePaul University "From the historian's point of view, this intriguing work does not so much explain Serbian politics as explain how Serbs explain politics, and it offers a valuable chronicle of what one might call the 'default settings' for the (domestic) representation of Serbian history. ... Highly recommended." Choice, March 2012