The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia

by Dubravka Žarkov and Dubravka Zarkov

In The Body of War, Dubravka Zarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Zarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity was produced by the war itself. Zarkov explores the process through which ethnicity was generated, showing how lived and symbolic female and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822339668
• ISBN13: 9780822339663
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.2"