Abstract:
The late twentieth-century Serbian nationalist discourse is seen as a
manifestation of the same rhetoric which was initially formulated in the
period of national awakening associated with the two uprisings against
the Turkish rule under Karadjordje Petrovic (1804-13) and Milos
Obrenovic (1815-17) and the institution of the autonomous Serbian
principality after the Russo-Turkish War (1828). The methodological
tool used in this paper to analyze the Serbian nationalist discourse in the
late 20th century is a set of binary oppositions underlying the formation
of Serbian national identity, which was skillfully manipulated by the
former leader Siobodan Milosevic.
