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A Serbian epic as a call to exterminate the “Race Betrayers”: The Mountain Wreath by Petar Petrovic Njegos

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A Serbian epic as a call to exterminate the “Race Betrayers”: The Mountain Wreath by Petar Petrovic Njegos

Abstract

The world history witnessed a really dramatic civil war in 1990s in the Balkans. Peoples that lived together for hundreds of years experienced the most violent results of nationalist ideology with the demise of Yugoslavia.  Serbs are one of the nations that involved in this civil war an in this period, their conflicts with especially Bosnian Muslims and Croats provided that the term “Serbian nationalism” is heard a lot in the world. Similarly with many other nations in history, the emergence and development of the idea of nationalism for Serbs started in 19th century. Serbs, who lived under the rule of empires, especially the Ottoman Empire, carried out the first rebellion against the Ottomans in 1804 and in this period, Serbian intellectuals were also attempting to create a national consciousness at the same time. These attempts to create a national language and literature would help this consciousness to improve and they would show their effect in that time and in the following century, as well. Even in the fall of Yugoslavia, the effect of this national mythology developed as a result of these efforts is seen clearly. One of the most important of these works written in 19th century is the poetic drama of Petar Petrovic Njegos. When the subject-matter of the work is analyzed, it is seen that the most common myth of Serbian nationalism, the Kosovo Battle, and the enmity against the ones told to have betrayed the Slavic race by converting to Islam are strongly emphasized. The work with this feature forms the basis of Serbian religious-nationalist literature and it would show its influence continuously in future times in the following works within this literary tradition. 

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Birincil Dil

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Sanat ve Edebiyat

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Araştırma Makalesi

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Ümit Hasanusta * Bu kişi benim
0000-0002-8131-7661
Türkiye

Yayımlanma Tarihi

21 Eylül 2019

Gönderilme Tarihi

27 Mart 2019

Kabul Tarihi

20 Eylül 2019

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2019 Sayı: 16

Kaynak Göster

APA
Hasanusta, Ü. (2019). A Serbian epic as a call to exterminate the “Race Betrayers”: The Mountain Wreath by Petar Petrovic Njegos. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 16, 628-638. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.619628