Proizvođenje Stare Srbije: stopama putopisca, tragom folklora
Production of Old Serbia: Following the Travel-Writers, Tracing the Folklore

Author(s): Srđan Atanasovski
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Serbian Literature, Nationalism Studies, 19th Century
Published by: KPZ Beton
Keywords: Serbian nationalism; Old Serbia; Macedonia; travelogues; ethnography;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper I analyse the travelogues from Old Serbia, which were a developed literary genre in Serbia at the end of the long nineteenth century, as a mechanism of vindicating the territorial claims of the discourse of Serbian nationalism. In the period when the portrayed lands were under Ottoman rule and deemed inaccessible to most of the Serbian population, which regarded them as the core of their national territory, these travelogues were unique way for the public to gain first-hand information about these lands. After a brief historical overview of the development of the genre, I analyse the literary mechanism through which these lands were efficiently labeled as Serbian. I particularly discuss the importance of scientific data copiously provided in the travelogues, on the issues of languages, customs, etc.

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