БАЛКАН КАО ЕВРОПСКА УНУТРАШЊА ДРУГОСТ
THE BALKANS AS A EUROPEAN INNER OTHERNESS

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author attempts to re-examine the importance of the Balkans in the imagery of (Western) Europe. Three points are highlighted: the necessity of mediation of Europe’s identity through the Otherness, peculiarities of Europe’s perception of the Balkans, and influence of the construction of this allegedly unitary, external identity of the Balkans on self-perception of peoples from the Peninsula. An effort is made to show how the internal complexity of the European identity directly and inevitably affected different, not only Balkan, cultural Othernesses and how it is peculiar for the Balkans not to be recognized by the West as sufficiently different Otherness.

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