Foreign language instruction

Product Description: An edited collection that examine the history and politics of language planning in Yugoslavia.

Product Description: Book by Andric, Ivo

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Product Description: This issue of "STORM" is devoted to writers born in Yugoslavia, who find themselves living in the new republics or forced into exile. Mirko Kovac visits his mother at the seaside. Dubravka Ugresic pokes fun at folk music and notes its role for nationalists in new Croatia...read more

A Croatian writer records her impressions of American culture, offering a fictional 'dictionary' that simultaneously critiques the shallowness of America's cultural obsessions as it clearly views the current barbarism of Balkan politics. 10,000 first printing.

In the fall of 1991, a young couple expecting the birth of their first child become trapped in Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, as the realities of ethnic violence and horrors of war begin to close in on them. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.

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Product Description: The first complete literary history in relation to women's writing in south-east Europe. The author provides a broad chronological account of this contribution, dividing the book into two main parts; the earlier period up until the eighteenth century concentrates on the projections of gender through the medium of oral tradition and the lives of a handful of educated women in medieval Serbia and the few works of literature they left...read more

Product Description: A History of Central European Women's Writing offers a unique survey of literature from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia. It introduces a little known area of European literature from a unique point of view, illustrating the development of women's writing in the region from the middle ages to the present day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: "These thought-provoking essays on the Serbian ethno-myth make this book a valuable contribution to the literature on the former Yugoslavia."—The Journal of Slavic Military Studies "The newspaper articles . . . offer incisive, ironic, and often witty analyses of nationalist discourse found in a wide variety of texts, including political speeches...read more

Product Description: Colloquial Croatian and Serbian is specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use. The course offers you a step by step approach to written and spoken Croatian and Serbian and no prior knowledge of the language is required...read more

Product Description: Colloquial Croatian provides a step-by-step course in Croatian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Croatian in a broad range of situations...read more

Product Description: Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, Colloquial Croatian provides a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Croatian. No prior knowledge of the language is required. The best choice in personal language learning, key features include: * a wide range of interactive exercises for regular practice* clear, concise grammar notes* a useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide* an answer key and reference section...read more

A comic novel of war from a teenager's point-of-viewPublished as the siege of Sarajevo ended, Lodgers is a hilarious, unsentimental report from the front lines of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Detergent mixed with flour, museum relics sold to U.N. peacekeepers, the magic power of laminated accreditation-all of the folly and the horror of that time are revealed in the sarcastic report of the novel's teenage would-be authoress.Maja lives in the basement of a Sarajevo museum, enduring with equal annoyance Serb artillery and vegetarian meals that taste like fried sponge. Her father, the museum director, zealously guards the treasures upstairs while their aged co-lodger Julio plots to trade them away. Maja's mother copes with yoga while dour stepbrother Davor endures the endless crying and cravings of his pregnant wife. Floating amidst it all is Maja's grandmother, blind and deaf, yet drawn to any conversation involving food.Need and crisis propel Maja and her companions from one humorous situation to another. Yet her pitch-perfect gallows humor makes it clear that the brutalities of war penetrate these small moments of life-and even the self-centeredness of a teenaged girl. A best seller in the Balkans and widely translated in Europe, Lodgers is an uncompromising novel about a modern tragedy.