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Slavic Studies Today: Local and Global Perspectives

Unfavorable circumstances in which Slavic Studies worldwide find themselves after the fall of the Iron Curtain represent the starting point of this research, precisely, this review of their situation and perspectives in the near future. Starting with a rich tradition of comparative research of South Slavic cultures, the aim of this research is to question the possibilities of a new understanding of the South Slavic Studies emphasising the context of transnational cross-linked society and modern redefinitions of world and national literature enhanced by it, as well as expanding traditional disciplinary boundaries of comparative studies. This research implies challenging the traditional category of the national in favour of a more permeable local and regional, but it shall also attempt at defining the research primacy of regional comparative studies within the context of general propulsion of cultural studies, as well as inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches. In line with that, the implementation of inclusion, non-centeredness and variability are considered as assumptions of regional comparative studies inscribed by tradition, their contact zones and interspaces, at the expense of pursuing methodologically only imitating models of “the centre”.

slavic studies, comparative studies, methodological modernization

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