“From Kragujevac to Kilimanjaro”: Imagining and re-imagining Africa and the self-perception of Yugoslavia in the travelogues from socialist Yugoslavia
“From Kragujevac to Kilimanjaro”: Imagining and re-imagining Africa and the self-perception of Yugoslavia in the travelogues from socialist Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: The article examines travelogues about Africa from a philosophical geography point of view, and compares them to other contemporary representations of Africa. It contextualizes the travelogues both within Yugoslavia and the tides of afro-optimism and afro-pessimism as well as numerous other Cold War phenomena. It also uses the travelogues to establish an auto-representation of Yugoslavia vis-a-vis Africa

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