Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Notes on the Pronunciation of Proper Names and Words Given in Original Spelling xix
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. My Yugoslavia: Personal Essays
8. 1. My Yugoslavia 23
9. 2. Yugoslavia A Defeated Argument? 38
10. Part II. Histories and Common Culture
11. 3. The Past as Future Post-Yugoslav Space in the Early Twenty-First Century 55
12. 4. What Common Yugoslav Culture Was, and How Everybody Benefited from It 75
13. 5. Discordia Concors 88
14. Part III. Legacies of Yugoslavia: Cultural Returns
15. 6. “Something Has Survived . . .” 115
16. 7. Vibrant Commonalities and the Yugoslav Legacy A Few Remarks 123
17. 8. Zenit Rising 135
18. Part IV. The Story of a Language
19. 9. Post-Yugoslav Emergence and the Creation of Difference 149
20. 10. What Happened to Serbo-Croatian? 160
21. 11. Language Imprisoned by Identities; or, Why Language Should Be Defended 169
22. Part V. Post-Film
23. 12. The Vibrant Cinemas in the Post-Yugoslav Space 185
24. 13. Marking the Trail 200
25. Part VI. The New National Literatures
26. 14. Traumatic Experiences 219
27. 15. Culture of Memory or Cultural Amnesia 228
28. 16. Cheesecakes and Bestsellers 241
29. 17. Slovene Literature Since 1990 265
30. 18. The Palimpsests of Nostalgia 273
31. Part VII. Return to the Provinces
32. 19. The Spirit of the Kakanian Province 289
33. Notes 307
34. Index 331