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Notes
1. Fredric Jameson was not so ready to embrace Eastern European thinkers, seeing a conceptual gap between them and those in the West. They spoke, in some sense, of the past – in terms of ‘power and oppression’ – while the West dealt with ‘culture and commodification’ (cited in Bjelić, Citation2002: 2).
2. Not only had the stereotype returned, but it did so with renewed force: in his remarkably ahistorical account of the Balkans, Kaplan went so far as to conjecture that even Nazism had its roots in the Balkans: ‘[a]mong the flophouses of Vienna, a breeding ground of ethnic resentments close to the southern Slavic world, Hitler learnt to hate so infectiously’ (Kaplan, Citation1993: xxiii).
3. On a popular culture level, Croatia’s claim to be the antemurale christianitatis – the bulwark against Islam that protects the borders of Christendom – has been interestingly complicated by a plethora of Turkish soap operas that have been the most popular TV programmes in the country over the past few years.