Imagining Yugoslavia in mid-century British and Irish writing /
During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a locus of spirituality, and then as a brave communist experiment containing the promise of utopia. Af...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Oxford mid-century studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a locus of spirituality, and then as a brave communist experiment containing the promise of utopia. After the war, many hailed Tito's Yugoslavia as an exceptional socialist society steering a course between the extremes of Western free-market capitalism and Soviet repression, while others cursed the regime as totalitarian, or mourned the loss of a picturesque Ruritanian kingdom to a communist regime. From the BBC to Ealing Studios, from special operations memoirs to Cold War travelogues, this book explores and interrogates a peculiar fascination with Yugoslavia in mid-twentieth-century British and Irish literature and culture. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (some color). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198973416 0198973411 |