VERRÄTER IN DEN EIGENEN REIHEN: DIE DARSTELLUNG DER SERBISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT IN BEITRÄGEN ZUR HANDKE-KONTROVERSE 1996 IN SERBISCHEN PRINTMEDIEN
TRAITOR IN ONE’S RANKS: THE REPRESENTATION OF SERBIAN SOCIETY IN ARTICLES ABOUT THE HANDKE-CONTROVERSY 1996 IN SERBIAN PRINT MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: Peter Handke’s text on Serbia A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia provoked a fierce controversy. While the debate in Western Europe and foremost in Germany is mostly part of scientific research on Handke’s text, its reception in the countries of former Yugoslavia has hardly made a subject of discussion. This circumstance is remarkable especially since the text itself explicitly addresses also the audience in this area. Therefore, this article wants to give a short overview on the Coverage of the Handke-Controversy in Serbian Print-Media in 1996 and shed light on the presentation of the Serbian society specifically. The question that is to be answered is, to what extend Serbian nationalist ideology, which dominated political discourse in Serbia at that time, played a role in the articles. To contextualize the analysis, at the beginning of the article Handke’s view on literature is discussed as well as his text “A Journey to the Rivers.” Presenting the results of the analysis the first two categories, that is “The description of Peter Handke” and “The description of the controversy in western media”, is given synthetically.

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