ABSTRACT
Considering the fact that the chronotope defines genre in literary theory, the author argues that the Yugoslav chronotope should be distinguished from the break-up/war chronotope and the post-Yugoslav chronotope, because the Yugoslav story, is radically different from the consequent stories of conflict, violence, capitalist globalization and extreme nationalism. In the political and media discourse, allusions to Yugoslavia are used to stigmatize political opponents or to legitimize ethno-national grievances, past injustices or neo-liberal electoral programs, and the Yugoslav project is often reduced to totalitarianism, communism, repression, while the Yugoslav experience is silenced, perverted or pragmatically re-articulated. Many of the various phenomena Yurchak's study illuminates, such as the futility of the concept of 'binary socialism', the ubiquitous 'obshchenie' -the simple relaxed socializing. Bojan Bilic's insightful trans-national study of Yugoslav anti-war activisms, taking into accounts 'both the inter- and intra-republican cooperation's and contestations, occurring in the context of Yugoslavia's socialist experience'.
