RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM IN SERBIAN LITERATURE: REFLECTIONS ON SOME CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES OF RECENT ANGLOPHONE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Keywords:
religious nationalism, ideological reception of literature, conflict of civilizations, cultural determinism, Ivo Andrić, Njegoš, cultural and religious identity, historiography and political scienceAbstract
In this article, guided by the way in which the genesis and nature of Yugoslav conflicts are examined in a considerable number in the American and British academic literature in the sphere of historiography and political science, the accusations of Serbian literature allegedly promoting Serbian religious nationalism (that are expressed in these kind of academic writings) are questioned. By means of ideological use of a reduced version of the theoretical framework of the clash of civilizations (in the form of unilateral Serbian cultural determinism for the manifestation of violence) in the critical examination of the literary opus of Serbian writers (in the form of a tendentious actualizing reception; in the context and from the perspective of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s), research observations demonstrated by Michael Sells, Tim Judah, Branimir Anzulovic, Cathie Carmichael, Christopher Catherwood, Noel Malcolm, Sabrina Ramet or Christopher Clark are providing remarks in which the Serbian literary works are indicated as the key initiators and alibiproviders to the presumed religiously intolerant political behaviour.
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