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

“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

Author(s): Nemanja Radonjić
Subject(s): Social history, Cold-War History
Published by: Udruženje za društvenu istoriju
Keywords: Travelogues; Africa; socialism; Yugoslavia; imagology; anticolonialism; non-alignment; Cold War; philosophical geography

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

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 55-89
  • Page Count: 35
  • Language: English