CIRCULUS GLOBUS

CirculusGlobus Series was launched in order to accelerate the process of relatively delayed reception of postcolonial thought in Serbia. Timely insights into the grounds for and consequences of postcolonial interventions are of great importance for understanding expansive history of colonial culture, ‘occidental’, expedition to ‘the Orient’. Postcolonial studies are also important because they had renewed the old critique of eurocentrism which persistently insisted on the idea that the World is imbued with European interests and that only Western criteria can provide one with knowledge. Postcolonial critique uncovered multiple connections of European culture and imperialism, understood as cultural racism. Postcolonial uproar, which should not be put in a binary trap of colonizers and colonized within warring and hopelessly contrasted identities, frees the space within global discoursive geography for positioning of specific discussion about the Balkans – the Balkanism. It is absolutely clear that alternative history of excommunicated Balkan cultures, and above all, defeating effects of Western construction of the Imaginary Balkans, cannot be understood beyond postcolonial paradigm. Postcolonial intervention made it possible for small nations to find their suppressed history again: it provided a discoursive and political space within which marginal cultures, groups, and individuals can speak without any hindrances.