VLADIMIR ZORIC AN EMPHATIC BALKANNESS IMMIGRANT NARRATIVES IN TWO

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Vladimir Zoric

Vladimir Zoric "An Emphatic Balkanness: Immigrant Narratives in Two Works of Yugoslav Cinema"


For the past several years I have been exploring rhetoric of exile and displacement, and in this paper I explore the representations of the Balkans in the works of cinema that present narratives about Yugoslav immigrant communities in the West. In my paper I treat exile as a situation of acute and extreme identity crisis where the individuals and communities make a self-conscious effort to reach to what they see as an "authentic" Balkan identity, different from both home culture and host communities. More particularly, I take a comparative approach and focus on two movies that in my view best illustrate the antinomical cinematic approaches to these rhetoric construals. In Dusan Makavejev’s Montenegro (Montenegro or: Pigs and Pearls, 1981), a Yugoslav Gastarbeiter community in Sweden is approached and culturally interpreted from the perspective of a Western protagonist (a bored Swedish housewife who falls in love with one of them) and in Goran Paskaljevic’s Tudja Amerika (Someone Else’s America, 1995) pauperised Balkan immigrants in New York are framed as central characters and contrasted against other immigrant groups who get involved with them (Spanish and Chinese). In my conclusions, I reflect on the cognitive value as well as on the aesthetic repercussions of these differing modes of negotiating and staging Balkan immigrant identities.


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