"This fascinating and important post-Yugoslav study of violence, especially in relation to Serbia and the Serbs, poses crucial questions about how Serbian violence has been understood from within Serbian culture, from within the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav framework, and from the external perspective of the European gaze. Tomislav Z. Longinovic, one of the world's leading scholars on South Slavic literature and culture, offers a cultural study that provocatively illuminates the complexities of Serbian identity, the metaphor of vampirism in south-eastern Europe, the meaning of violence within an imagined community, and the mental mapping of the former Yugoslavia."--Larry Wolff, author of Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment "The book offers plentiful and juicy illustrations. For instance: the Ottoman practice of blood tribute in which Christian Slav boys were abducted from their homes, converted to Islam, and inserted into the Ottoman social order, is interpreted within the frame of the book as a violence that subsequently nurtures collective insecurities that can be (and have been) exploited... Given the elastic qualities of vampirism, it is not surprising that the book comes together as a collage of artistic and literary artefacts that are rather impressive in their range... Vampire Nation presents a daunting task, with its frequent references to Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida (among others) and its emulation of their deconstructive strategies. But for those willing to take the challenge, there is plenty to bite into in this book."--Dragana Obradovic, Times Higher Education, 2nd February 2012 "Vampire Nation brilliantly dissects the vampiric discourses of both 'serb' nationalism and neoimperial 'humanitarian' scapegoating, the frequent insistence that Western media, in their 'mendacious' reporting, 'staged the violence' (p. 41) in the Balkans that 'far exceeded' the real crimes committed by 'serbs' (p. 27) could unwittingly play into 'serb' nationalist discourses that hinge on downplaying the number of mass graves and general responsibility for the wars."--Slavonic and East European Review, 91, 2, April 2013
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