The Story about Old Hag Europe and Healthy Maiden Serbia

Maria Vivod

doi:10.3986/Traditio2009380208

Authors

Maria Vivod CNRS, group UMR 7043, 67100 Strasbourg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2009380208

Keywords:

Serbia, Milosevic, political myth, nationalism, stereotype // Srbija, Milošević, politični mit, nacionalizem, stereotip

Abstract

In the process of a creation of an image of the Other, a self-image is created, establishing a relation between the ‘Observed’ - ‘the Other’ and the ‘Observer’. A political myth, in its every-day form, as a political story about the ‘rotten West’, the ‘decadent, old Europe’ which is facing a chaste, uncorrupted Serbia, is propagated in public, as well as in private sphere and making a ‘obsessive-compulsive nightmare’ of the Serbian community.

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V procesu ustvarjanja podobe Drugega nastane tudi samopodoba, ki postavlja razmerje med »opazovanim« - »drugim« in »opazovalcem«. V svoji vsakdanji obliki je politični mit oz. politična zgodba o »gnilem zahodu«, o »dekadentni stari Evropi« ki se spoprijema z nedolžno, nepokvarjeno Srbijo, propagiran v javnem in zasebnem območju in ustvarja ‘obsesivno-kompulzivno nočno moro’ srbske skupnosti.

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