Serbian Culture Research Articles

New Perspectives on the Old Uses of Traditional Medicinal and Edible Herbs: Extract and Spent Material of Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre

Background/Objectives:Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre, commonly known as water pepper, possesses multifunctional potential. Our research focuses on its complex phenolic composition, bioactivity, safety evaluation and utilization in a sustainable manner. Moreover, a survey was conducted among the Serbian population to gain insight into the attitude towards traditional wild-growing herbs (i.e., P. hydropiper), the level of familiarity with their zero-waste culture, and to assess eating behaviors. Methods: A survey was conducted with 168 participants to assess attitudes towards traditional herbs, zero-waste culture, and eating behaviors, while cytotoxicity, in vivo toxicity, chemical analysis of secondary metabolites, and probiotic viability assays were performed to evaluate the effects of the PH extract. Results: Notably, P. hydropiper extract (PH) exhibits a diverse phenolic profile, including quinic acid (3.68 ± 0.37 mg/g DW), gallic acid (1.16 ± 0.10 mg/g DW), quercetin (2.34 ± 0.70 mg/g DW) and kaempferol-3-O-glucoside (4.18 ± 0.17 mg/g DW). These bioactive compounds have been linked to anticancer effects. The tested extract demonstrated a cytotoxic effect on the human neuroblastoma cell line, opening questions for the further exploration of its mechanisms for potential therapeutic applications. Based on the toxicity assessment in the Artemia salina model, the PH could be characterized with good safety, especially for the lower concentrations (LC50 = 0.83 mg/mL, 24 h). The utilization of the spent PH material supports the viability of psychobiotic strains (up to 9.26 ± 0.54 log CFU/mL). Based on the conducted survey, 63.7% (n = 107) of respondents mainly prefer traditional instead of imported herbs. The respondents were skeptical about zero-waste edibles; 51.2% (n = 86) would not try them, and a bit more than half were not familiar with zero-waste culture (57.7%; n = 97). Only 8.3% (n = 14) followed a flexitarian diet as a dietary pattern. Conclusions: The use of underutilized traditional plants and their spent material could potentially contribute to the acceptance of a zero-waste culture in Serbia. Reinventing the use of neglected traditional plants and addressing ways for spent material valorization could contribute to the acceptance of a zero-waste strategy and encourage healthier eating behavior.

The coffin-reliquary of the holy Serbian king Stefan of Dečani (fourteenth century): wood, pigments and metal surfaces

The coffin-reliquary for the relics of the holy Serbian king Stefan Uroš III of Dečani has been made around 1343 as a rectangular chest with a gable cover. The present study aimed to identify the wood this coffin-reliquary was made, as well as the pigments and metals found on its surface. The combination of anatomical traits (diffuse-porosity, distinct helical thickenings in vessels, simple perforation plates, 3- to 4-seriate noded rays and diffuse-in-aggregates axial parenchyma) showed that the wood belongs to linden, i.e., to the botanical genus Tilia L. (Malvaceae). The linden is one of the sacred trees in Serbian culture, and its wood could also be used due to its ease for joinery. X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF analyzer) was used for in situ determination of the material chemistry of the pigments, as well as the metals on the wooden surfaces of the coffin. Their elemental composition showed that wooden coffin-reliquary was painted with vermilion, malachite or copper resinate, orpiment, and lead white, while metal surfaces were shown to be gold and silver. Unlike a commonly used palette of earthy pigments, these coloring matters belong to precious noble pigments.

Communication with the Deceased in Dreams: Overcoming the Boundary between This World and the Otherworld or Its Conceptualization Strategy?

Starting from the concept of death in contemporary Serbian culture (in the context of thanatological and anthropological studies), the author focuses on the analysis of communication with the deceased in dreams, which is still perceived as an important form of contact with the otherworldly. The analysis of material collected during field research at various locations in Serbia and in Serbian communities in Romania (from 2017 to 2024), supplemented by dream narratives from the internet, has shown that based on the main messages conveyed by the deceased to the living, dreams can be divided into: (1) dreams about “the unappeased deceased” (who lack something in the otherworld, usually due to an omission by the living related to funerary rituals); (2) dreams in which the deceased show the otherworld and provide verbal assessments of it; (3) dreams in which the deceased inform of their departure or final passing into the world of the dead; (4) dreams in which the deceased demonstrate their presence in the world of the living, i.e., providing information pertaining to the sphere of the dreamer’s social reality; (5) dreams in which the deceased convey their messages, advice or warnings to the living; and (6) dreams interpreted as the deceased person’s call to the dreamer to join them in the otherworld. Basic element analysis of the spatial world image, projected via the dream, highlights the importance of the locus perceived as a border space. Dreams about the deceased seem to be ambivalent in this respect, given that, on the one hand, they are perceived as an important means of communication between this world and the otherworld, and on the other hand, through the ideas on which they are founded and that they further transmit, they are also part of the narrative strategies of the boundary between this concept of two worlds.

Discursive Practices of Serbian Cultural Intelligentsia and Production of Socio-Political Crisis Through and within the Union of Writers of Yugoslavia during 1985

In her work and on the basis of archival material, the author presents and analyzes the discursive practices of writers gathered in the Union of Writers of Yugoslavia, and articulated through the work of its governing bodies – Congresses, Assemblies, and the Presidency – throughout 1985. Namely, that year, at the 9th Congress of Writers in Novi Sad, one part of Serbian writers, gathered in the Association of Writers of Serbia, opened and actualized the so-called Kosovo issue within the Union, by constructing uniformly structured, and persistently repeated ideological narrative about the endangerment and persecution of Serbs in Kosovo, claiming that it was – genocide. The paper presents and summarizes the main features of the aforementioned congress, which indicate that the Yugoslav socio-political crisis of the early 1980s deeply affected the Union during 1985 and that it revealed deep conceptual divisions among Serbian and other writers in Yugoslavia. The dividing line was built around the rejection of the 1974 Constitution and the denial of national-cultural and republican identities and borders within Yugoslavia, on the one hand, and their defense and plea for them, on the other. The text seeks to clarify what the concept of freedom of literary creation and politicization of literature, which was advocated and defended by the Serbian cultural intelligentsia at the 9th Congress, essentially meant, as well as to point out that the period of the 1980s was marked by the ambition of writers to affirm themselves as significant socio-political factor through criticism of dogmatic and repressive political authorities of socialist selfgovernment. The author then focuses on the work of the Literary Union Presidency during 1985, and on the discursive practices of some Serbian writers, gathered in the Association of Writers of Serbia and the Association of Writers of Kosovo, articulated through The Open Letter and other letters of the UKS administration, which insisted on further opening of the so-called Kosovo issue and made serious accusations against the Albanian administration of the Kosovo Writers' Association. This encouraged the continuation of the crisis production process within the Union. She concludes that behind all of these discursive efforts was a concrete goal of recentralizing the federal literary organization, mastering the Kosovo literary association and discursively supporting the Serbian political elite, which at the same time, at the federal political level, insisted on opening and resolving the so-called Kosovo issue and the issue of unity of the Serbian federal and state unit within Yugoslavia. The author started from the hypothesis that (war) violence, specifically that in Kosovo, against Albanians, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was conceived, among other things, in the words of the Serbian humanistic intelligentsia, which produced discursive/ideological knowledge through which interpreted the past and present of the national community and which aimed to encourage national mobilization and homogenization and put them at the service of a certain political project – the recentralization of the Yugoslav state, of Serbia, strengthening and unification of the imagined and scattered Serbian national-cultural society in Yugoslavia. Through the aforementioned discursive knowledge, a stigmatic image of the barbaric Albanian Other was built, which served to legitimize his exemption from the legal order, i.e. the imposition of a state of emergency and the normalization of violence in Kosovo throughout 1990s. Given that the aim of this paper was to give a meticulous overview of a conjuncture episodes in the work of the Union of Writers of Yugoslavia during 1985 and discursive strategies that would lead to its disintegration in the continuation of the process, and since this topic is still largely subject to politicization, the author let the sources “speak” in the text to the greatest extent possible.

The Belgrade Metro as a Space of Unfinished Modernisation and Literary Reflections of Its History

The concept of a Belgrade metro has been present in Serbian urban planning since the interwar period. Despite numerous projects, long discussions, and even the creation of a small part of the necessary infrastructure, the underground rapid transport system remains a solution that has never been implemented. The subject of this article is the metro viewed as a project permanently suspended at the conceptual stage, constantly in a transitional phase, a project whose constitutive feature is “being in progress”. As a result of the endless temporariness of alternative transport solutions, in Serbian culture the metro functions as a symbol of the incompleteness and dysfunctionality of local reality. This phenomenon is confirmed by Filip Vujošević’s drama Halflife, analysed in the article. It is set in the space of the underground station Vukov Monument (Vukov spomenik), designed as a main point of the future metro, but still serving today as a temporary solution and a substitute.

Damnatio Memoriae of Serbian Culture: The Institute for the Preservation of Antiquities of Milan Nedić's Government, Precursor of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments

Currently, the conservation activities in Serbia are conducted by the institutions for the protection of cultural monuments. It is widely accepted that the first institute of the kind was The Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, established in 1947, during the enactment of several heritage laws, which were also presented as the first of their kind. The main contribution for the establishment of the Institute was attributed to its first director, Milorad Panić-Surep.
 During the Second World War, in the spring of 1942, at the initiative of the occupiers, the collaborationist government of Milan Nedić enacted the Regulation on the Preservation of Antiquities. It was the first legal act aimed at protecting cultural heritage in Serbia. On this basis, the Institute for the Protection of Antiquities was established, which actively operated despite the wartime conditions. From its establishment until the founding of the post-war Institute in 1947, there was an uninterrupted continuity, marked by several transformations due to the turbulent post-war events.
 Towards the end of the war, in early 1945, the Institute for the Protection of Antiquities ceased its operations but was not dissolved, it was merged with the Art Museum instead (formerly the Museum of Prince Paul, now the National Museum of Serbia). Thus, both before and after the war, in addition to its regular activities, the Museum also engaged in conservation efforts. The Museum director, Veljko Petrović, insisted that, following the example from the occupation years, an independent institution for conservation activities should be established.
 This was realized in several steps. Firstly, in April, a special committee for creating the Register of Antiquities was formed under the auspices of the Museum, taking over the responsibilities of the former Institute. Subsequently, at the turn of 1945 to 1946, the committee evolved into a separate museum Department for the Protection and Scientific Study of Cultural Monuments, and by mid-1947, it became an independent institution as the Institute for the Protection and Scientific Research of Cultural Monuments. This institution took over all previously created documentation as well as leading experts and in 1960 it changed its name to the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments.
 Following the given facts, the Institute for the Protection of Antiquities from 1942 is a direct precursor to the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, with a continuous legacy. Driven by ideological reasons, the post-war authorities intended to demonstrate that numerous innovative moves of state administration were initiated during their tenure. Consequently, they endeavored to conceal or minimize initiatives undertaken by previous authorities, particularly the ones associated with the collaborationist government during the occupation period, whose entire activity was presented as contrary to the interests of the people.

Istorijom oblikovani identitet kosovskometohijskih Srba

The author considers characteristics meaning of Serbian culture in Kosovo and Metohija, thoughtout a historical period dating from the XIII and XIV century to the present days. Theoretical and methodological difficulties of such studies are being stressed in the introductory part of the paper. In the second part, existential conditions of cultural life of Serbian people are presented both during the Middle Ages and a long period of the Turkish domination and Albanian islamization. Yugoslav state experience (1918- 2000) and NATO aggression are discussed in the context of culture. The third part, deals with basic characteristic meanings of Serbian culture: 1) Shift of cultural creation and destruction of cultural heritage, 2) Cultural life in the condition of violence, isalmization, and expulsion, 3) Cultural contacts. 4) Tragic feeling of life, 5) Orthodox faith as a central point of culture, 6) Folk features of culture, 7) Absence of cultural institutions, of institution, 8) Mythology awareness of Kosovo battle, 9) Endowment, 10) Impact of Kosovo cultural heritage within the Serbian cultural space. In the final part of the paper, the discontinuity of Serbian culture in Kosovo and Metohija is emphsize. Afret having had a freedom of Medieval cultural creativity expressed through Ortodox Cristianity, the Serbs have found themselves in a long lasting period of violence, expulsion and struggle for their biological survival.

Soft power and protection of the constitutional order - Marko Parezanović: Protection of the Constitutional Order, Institute for Serbian Culture Priština, Leposavić, 2024, 398 p, (2nd ed.)

Soft power and protection of the constitutional order - Marko Parezanović: Protection of the Constitutional Order, Institute for Serbian Culture Priština, Leposavić, 2024, 398 p, (2nd ed.)

ИСТОКИ ПРАЗДНИЧНОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ ЛУГАНЩИНЫ

The article examines the history of the formation of the festive culture of the Lugansk region and gives a brief description of them. The author examines various rituals, traditions and mass celebrations that shaped the festive culture of this region and comes to the conclusion that the festive culture of the current Lugansk People's Republic is the result of a unique cultural and historical experience accumulated by society and has deep spiritual, cultural and patriotic significance. There are many cultures and traditions represented in the Lugansk region due to historical circumstances: the relatively late settlement of the region; cohabitation of different nationalities on the same territory - Russians, Ukrainians, Serbs, Poles, Greeks, Jews and many others; economic, cultural, everyday ties that led to a significant ethnocultural rapprochement of peoples. Examples are given of the fusion of fraternal Serbian culture with the traditions and holidays of the Don Cossacks: the Serbian Bozhich (carol at Christmas), and the general custom of the first guest of Christmas morning, and Easter, and transforming pagan holidays, rituals, such as Ivan Kupala, Maslenitsa; and many other common holidays and traditions. It is emphasized that for many nations, oral and intangible cultural heritage constitutes the main source of identification. One of the main types of intangible heritage is the culture of holidays.

BOŽIDAR PETRANOVIĆ AND THE EMERGENCE OF PERIODICALS IN SERBIAN IN THE PROVINCE OF DALMATIA

Božidar Petranović belongs to a group of prominent actors as regards to the 19th-century Serbian culture in the province of Dalmatia (part of the present-day Croatia). Although his social engagement is versatile (among other things, he was a law attorney, a writer, a literary historian, a translator, a deputy in the parliament, a creator of legal documents, and a historian), one of his most notable contributions would be the establishment and subsequent editing of a journal entitled Srpsko-dalmatinski magazin, the first publication dealing with Serbian literature in Dalmatia, whose influence was felt far beyond the imagined borders. For that reason, this paper is focused on the editorial, cultural, and literary engagement of Božidar Petranović among the Serb population in Dalmatia, especially as regards to the aforementioned journal.

On the Border of Worlds and on the Periphery of the Canon: The Place of the Dubrovnik Tradition in Serbian Literary History

The article attempts to discuss the status of Dubrovnik and its literary and cultural tradition in 19th- and 20th-century discourses in the frame of Serbian literary history. The starting point for the presented considerations will be the opinion of Jovan Deretić, who, perceiving the Dubrovnik tradition as “borderline”, referred to it as “a tradition of secondary importance” for the Serbian culture and literature system. In his opinion, it could not have become for the Serbs what it had become for Croatian literature, that is, “the central national tradition”. The text will discuss different points of view (both “internal” and “external”) on the “location” and importance of the city and its traditions in the context of ongoing discussions on the identity of Dubrovnik. The t exts of the n ineteenth-century authors (Đ. Nikolajević, I. Stojanović, L. Vojnović) and twentieth-century authors (J. Skerlić, P. Popović, M. Pantić) will be analyzed. The framework of the article will be determined by contemporary reflection on this subject (Z. Bojović, I. Arsić, S. Stipčević).

Mrs. Talfj's salon and her methods of mediating Serbian culture in Germany

Creation of cultural and poetic conditions in German cultural and political centers suitable for the reception of folk poetry in general, and thus also of a Serbian poetry; conceptualization and textualization of the image of Serbs, especially on the basis of Talfja's translations of Serbian folk poetry in German literature and nonfiction in the 20s and 30s of 19th century. Formation of literature circles in Berlin led by Goethe, Brothers Grimm, Kopitar, Stieglitz and Varnhagen. Description of the trip in the book Visit to Montenegro, with Stieglitz's special interest in folklore, legends and epic folk poetry in Njegos's Grlica. Stieglitz's importance as a cultural mediator and one of Talfja's best followers is also mentioned.

Tijana Vuković, Regaining the Yugoslav Heritage vs. Culture Crisis Regaining the Past. Yugoslav Legacy in the Period of Transition: The Case of Formal and Alternative Institutions of Art and Culture in Serbia at the End of the 20th and the Beginning of the 21st Century, Warsaw–Bellerive-sur-Allier, Wydawnictwo DiG 2022, pp. 343

Tijana Vuković, Regaining the Yugoslav Heritage vs. Culture Crisis Regaining the Past. Yugoslav Legacy in the Period of Transition: The Case of Formal and Alternative Institutions of Art and Culture in Serbia at the End of the 20th and the Beginning of the 21st Century, Warsaw–Bellerive-sur-Allier, Wydawnictwo DiG 2022, pp. 343

The “Giant Role Model”: the “Serbian” Petőfi

Abstract The reception of Sándor Petőfi’s poems and the critical discourse on them in German by bilingual German poets and publicists in Hungary began during the poet’s lifetime and ran parallel to the development of his career. In the same period, however, from the mid-1840s, a very intense interest in his person and his poetry, which was even deeper and more diverse than in German, was awakened in southern Slavic, especially Serbian, literature. This paper explores the possible reasons for his integration in Serbian poetry and public poetry. Among the most important factors is the fact that in the 18th and 19th centuries, strong centres of Serbian culture developed in Hungary, including Buda, and that in the northern part of present-day Serbia, in Vojvodina, the population had for centuries been of mixed nationality, including Serbs, Hungarians and Germans. As a result, a large part of the Serbian intelligentsia spoke Hungarian, and many of the Hungarians in Vojvodina had spoken Serbian since the last century, so they could read each other’s literature in the original. Petőfi’s poetry, like much of 19th century Hungarian literature, was translated by renowned authors, sometimes of European quality, and his poetry was an inspiration for Serbian Romanticism in terms of form, theme and poetics (Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Đura Jakšić). Finally, it is worth mentioning the historical circumstances, the fact that, although the two peoples were on opposite political sides in the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848 and several times later, Petőfi’s figure transcended political differences and his reception remained unbroken even in the most difficult periods. The belief that Petőfi, who originally went by the name Petrovics, was of Serbian origin – a belief that is difficult to verify biographically – and which dates back to Petőfi’s own time, has contributed to this. The layers and trends in the history of Petőfi’s reception in Serbia also shed light on the mechanisms of intellectual relations in the common cultural space of the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans.

GRAD PEĆ U PERIODU IZMEĐU DVA SVETSKA RATA

In the period between the two world wars, Peć was one of the few cities in Kosovo and Metohija (the others were Prizren, Priština and Kosovska Mitrovica). This city was a combination of modern and traditional, it had new, beautiful buildings but also classic minarets, ancient churches, the sevdah of Sarajevo and the Bey’s residences, towers like the castles of the counts, and streams ran through every courtyard in Peć. Muslims, who were the main bearers of the Turkish-Eastern culture, were of the greatest importance for the appearance of Peć, the way of life and work of the population. Later, the town began to be arranged under the influence of European culture. Peć was famous for goldsmithing, especially for the production of filigree works from gold and silver, the production of beautiful silk fabrics and carpets, which have been compared to Pirot carpets. Local merchants exported livestock, livestock products, and imported manufactured goods and colonial goods. The railroad was of inestimable economic importance. In my paper, I will review the history of the city of Peć in the period between the two world wars with the help of historical sources, literature and the press. For the history of the Serbs, the city of Peć is very important as the seat of patriarchs and medieval Serbian culture, a mirror of architectural art and the cradle of the Serbian empire.

Qualifier etn. in the Dictionary of Serbian language

This paper represents the continuation of the research started within the article Linguo-cultural qualifiers in the Dictionary of Serbian language, where we have marked as linguo-cultural qualifiers the following dictionary markers: etn. (ethnology, ethnography), prazn. (superstition), mit. (mythology, mythological), ist. (history, historical), rlg. (religion, religious), teol. (theology, theological), crkv. (church), pravosl. (Orthodoxy, orthodox) and kat. (Catholic). On this occasion, we have chosen those lexemes which are marked by the qualifier etn. (ethnology, ethnography) in the Dictionary of Serbian language (2011), i.e. those which refer to Serbian folk life and customs, or to be more precise – names of holidays, customs, rituals, parts of folk clothes, popular games and similar, as most of these lexemes represent the so-called non-equivalent lexis and are usually problematic in terms of translating or learning Serbian as a foreign language, but at the same time enable learning about Serbian culture and tradition.

The Esoteric Background of Yugoslav Messianism

Panhumanism was an intellectual movement in interwar Serbian culture that encompassed the idea of Yugoslav messianism. After research based on the archive material of the New Atlantis, we show that the circle of panhumanists from what was essentially the Serbian branch of network of esotericist Dimitrije Mitirnović. Apart from the work on spreading the ideas of Mitrinović, this circle was devoted to occult practices, also under the leadership of a teacher from London.

Социально-философская и культурологическая мысль во взаимоотношениях России и Сербии

The article deals with the issues of socio-philosophical and culturological thought as a factor of interaction between Russia and Serbia in the modern European space. In the study the author presents the historical periods of socio-cultural development of relationships between the two countries, beginning from the first millennium. The work focused on identifying the common mental, cultural and historical commonalities of our peoples which allowed for the development of interaction between the two countries in the field of scientific cooperation, socio-philosophical, cultural and spiritual relations [1, c. 244-250]. The author defines the role of the language of communication and examines an important stratum of Serbian culture: Orthodoxy. In this context, the aspects of spiritual and cultural unity between Russia and Serbia, which have shaped the unity of views of the representatives of Serbian science and cultural, socio-philosophical and spiritual-cultural thought have emerged. The author defines the role of the ‘Russian House’ Centre for Culture and Science in Belgrade, Serbia, as a fulcrum of cultural, scientific and religious life of the Russian immigrant community and a firm manifestation of the Russian-Serbian spiritual, socio-philosophical and cultural ties between the two states. The paper focuses on such phenomena of intercultural contacts between Russia and Serbia as the scientific and cultural influence of the Russian intelligentsia after the 1917 revolution. Several waves of Russian emigration in the 19th and 20th century had the biggest impact on Serbian spiritual culture, architecture, civil engineering and art. One of the first associations of Russian post-November emigrants was the Archeological Society of Serbia (1921), represented by the Slavist historian A.L. Pogodin. Emigration to Serbia increased after the ruefully known ‘Philosophical steamer’ in 1922. This year, the St. Petersburg scholarly community widely marked the 100th anniversary of this exodus of Russian intellectuals, which marked the loss of the spiritual forces of Soviet Russia, but there was a considerable acquisition of culture, science, architecture, and theatrical art in Serbia, and thus in Europe.

"Povratak u budućnost" - uspon hemseksa u Srbiji i transformacija homoseksualne intimnosti

The article presents novel research into the development of chemsex practices - a syndemic behaviour of sexualized drug use through online hook-up and the use of sex apps among gay men in Belgrade, Serbia. In the analysis, a new periodization is proposed comprising three distinctive periods of chemsex: the period of chemsex as a "novelty" (2013-2016), marked by online activities in selling drugs on gay dating sites and recruiting participants for the parties online; the period of "consolidation" of chemsex scene marked by regular consumption and commodification of chemsex drugs among gay men (2017-2018); and the period of "developed chemsex" culture in Serbia (2019-onward) with the rising numbers of chemsex participants, and increased demand for chemsex support services. The analysis also argues how such periodization is not clear-cut, and how each period overlaps with other periods. This article draws on three research projects - the first is a research into gay virtual intimacy in Serbia (2014-2018), during which data were generated and collected using the virtual ethnography methodology of gay dating apps; the second, a research project "Confessions of a drug dealer" which comprises three follow-up interviews undertaken between 2016-2018 with a drug dealer in Belgrade, and the third one - an in-depth interview, conducted in 2020, with a chemsex activist who previously took part in chemsex parties, and now provides peer-support to chemsex participants/users. This article provides an insight into the shifting risk of HIV and STDs transmission among Serbian gay men in chemsex contexts.

The Hidden History of New Women in Serbian Culture: Toward a New History of Literature. By Svetlana Tomić. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2022. xvi, 275 pp. Bibliography. Index. Figures. $110.00, hard bound.

The Hidden History of New Women in Serbian Culture: Toward a New History of Literature. By Svetlana Tomić. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2022. xvi, 275 pp. Bibliography. Index. Figures. $110.00, hard bound.