Slav ırkına ihanet edenleri ortadan kaldırmaya çağıran bir Sırp destanı: Petar Petrovic Njegos'un "The Mountain Wreath" adlı eseri

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.