Sections offered FALL 2020:
#36325 |
MARINA ANTIC |
MW 1:10-2:25pm |
WEB |
CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Culture credit; meets with SLAV-S 363
Above class meets 100% Online through Synchronous instruction. For more information visit https://fall2020.iu.edu/learning-modes/
This course is a survey of literary and intellectual history of the South Slavs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a special focus on the foundational ideology of nations and nationalism in this period.
For much of the modern period, nationalism has been a dominant ideology in the Balkans, surviving well into the socialist period and beyond. From the early days of anti-colonial resistance to the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, to the arrival of Young Bosnia and its most notorious member – Gavrilo Princip – on the world stage in 1914, much of South Slavic written word, including literature, was devoted to elaborating the idea of national identity and national self-determination.
In this course we will examine the rise of nations and nationalism in the Balkans, focusing primarily on the lands of former Yugoslavia. Our readings will helps us understand theories and histories of nationalism on the one hand, and literary and cultural participation in nationalist ideology on the other. Our primary literary sources will include a number of late 19th and early 20th century authors and their works, supplemented by later works that explore this tumultuous period in South Slavic literary history.
All readings are in English. No previous study of the region is required.