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Summary:

"Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, they pursued political sovereignty, economic development, and cultural modernization at a scale between the national and the global--from regional strategies of Balkan federalism to continental visions of European integration to the internationalist ambitions of the Non-Aligned Movement. In Mediating Spaces James Robertson offers an intellectual history of the diverse supranational politics of Yugoslav socialism, beginning with its birth in the 1870s and concluding with its violent collapse in the 1990s. Showcasing the ways in which socialists in Southeast Europe confronted the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization, the book frames the evolution of supranational politics as a response to the shifting dynamics of global economic and geopolitical competition. Arguing that literature was a crucial vehicle for imagining new communities beyond the nation, Robertson analyzes the manuscripts, journals, and personal correspondence of the literary left to excavate the cultural geographies that animated Yugoslav socialism and its supranational horizons. The book ultimately illuminates the innovative strategies of cultural development used by socialist writers to challenge global asymmetries of power and prestige. Mediating Spaces reveals the full significance of supranationalism in the history of socialist thought, recovering a key concern for an era of renewed geopolitical contestation in Eastern Europe."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• "A Cramped and Rusty Building": Globalization, Serbian Socialism, and the Limits of the Nation State, 1870-1914
• Balkanizing Europe: The Early Comintern and the Yugoslav Avant-Gardes, 1918-26
• Literary Capital in an Age of Global Crisis: The Political Economy of Translation on Europe's Periphery, 1928-34
• The Popular Front, World Literature, and Rapprochement with Europe, 1934-40
• The Slavic Vanguard of the Balkan Revolution: Race and Region in Yugoslav Stalinism, 1941-48
• Cultural One-Worldism and the Geographies of Non Alignment, 1948-68
• European Integration, Yugoslav Fragmentation: On the Cultural Spaces of Late Socialism, 1974-95.

Author/Creator:

Robertson, William M. (Lecturer in history) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Mediating spaces: literature, politics, and the scales of Yugoslav socialism, 1870-1995 [by Robertson, W.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Mediating spaces [by Robertson, W.M.] (Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024 — ISBN 0228021375; ISBN 9780228021377)

Subjects:

Socialism — Yugoslavia — History — 19th century

Socialism — Yugoslavia — History — 20th century

Globalization — Yugoslavia — History — 19th century

Globalization — Yugoslavia — History — 20th century

Socialism and literature — Yugoslavia

Literature and globalization — Yugoslavia

Politics and literature — Yugoslavia

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 24th, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

HX365.5.A6 R63 2024

ISBNs:

9780228021872 (electronic book)
0228021871 (electronic book)
9780228021889 (ePUB)
022802188X

OCLC Numbers:

1424614558

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31318862 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp305936389