KOSOVO MYTH AS SERBIAN ‘ALLY’ OR ‘OPPONENT’: ALEXANDER GREENAWALT’S IDEOLOGICAL PROJECTIONS IN HIS RECEPTION OF THE MOUNTAIN WREATH AND SERBIAN ORAL EPIC POETRY
Keywords:
Kosovo myth, The Mountain Wreath, oral epic poetry, ideology, Kosovo question, ethnic cleansing, Alexander GreenawaltAbstract
This article explores the way in which - from the perspective of the ideological interpretation of Alexander Greenawalt - significant segments of the Serbian literary tradition (The Mountain Wreath and the modified ‘romantic version’ of the Kosovo myth) are observed as direct conceptual and spiritual inspirers of the politics of ethnic cleansing, while supposedly the initial ‘nonconflicting’ model the Kosovo tradition – by means of supremely arbitrary and tendentious interpretation of the same author – is given the political function of delegitimizing the Serbian view of the current legal and political status of Kosovo and Metohija.
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