Only in the Balkans
Misha Glenny: The Balkans Imagined, 29 April 1999
Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination
by Vesna Goldsworthy.
Yale, 254 pp., £19.95, May 1998,0 300 07312 7 Show More
by Vesna Goldsworthy.
Yale, 254 pp., £19.95, May 1998,
“... in the crisis, and whose influence helps to perpetuate the myths. Both Goldsworthy and Maria Todorova, a Bulgarian historian who now teaches at the University of Florida, seek to explain the peculiar form of literary and ideological imperialism visited on the Balkans. While consciously drawing on Edward Said’s Orientalism for ... ”
