ZAŠTO AMERIKANCI NE RAZUMIJU HRVATSKU?
WHY DON'T AMERICANS UNDERSTAND CROATIA?
Author(s): David BennettContributor(s): Darko Polšek (Translator)
Subject(s): Cultural history, Evaluation research, Theory of Literature
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Americans; Croatia; stereotypic informants;
Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes two works which have, in his opinion, greatly determined the American understanding of the current situation in Croatia as well as its history. The former is Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, 1941, by the famous English writer Rebecca West, and the latter Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History, 1993, written by the American author Robert Kaplan. In the article it is being argued that the discourse in these books uses reduction ist viewpoints based on newspaper travel stories and superficial impressions of stereotypic informants.
Journal: Društvena istraživanja - Časopis za opća društvena pitanja
- Issue Year: 4/1995
- Issue No: 15
- Page Range: 133-142
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Croatian