A Bloody Defender of Culture, or Multiculturality Revisited in Slobodan Selenic’s “Friends from Kosančičev Venac 7”
A Bloody Defender of Culture, or Multiculturality Revisited in Slobodan Selenic’s “Friends from Kosančičev Venac 7”

Summary/Abstract: The most recent phenomenon of intensive and extensive cultural studies seems to have passed by Serbia leaving it undisturbed in its own cultural preconceptions, stereotypes and social prejudice. Yet, sooner or later, even the Serbian scientists would have to face the consequence of such a harmful delay in accepting cultural studies, especially at the academic level. This paper is an attempt to start talking about the topics that are now on the agenda of the cultural studies at every serious academia including the issue of national identity, gender and sexuality, history and social fiction, etc. In the presented analysis of Slobodan Selenić's novel, the focus is on the failure to establish proper bicultural contacts within the post-second World War Yugoslav (Serbian) framework between the members of two historically quite antagonistic ethnicities, Serbian and Kosovo Albanian. In the complex mélange of the presumed "reality", history, myth and fantasy, their relationship, instead of leading towards a creative and fruitful merging, leads to pathology, sickness and ultimate (self)destruction.

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