Abstract The debate on the ‘where’ of the Balkans seem to be stuck between national paradigms and a nostalgia for cosmopolitanism. This essay explores an alternative spatial mapping of the region, opening it up to the wider Eastern-Mediterranean, in particular the fuzzy and contested notion of the Levant. First, it looks into various instances of ‘the Levant’ and ‘the Levantine,’ ranging from Turkish and Greek to Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian examples – with a particular focus on the latter. Secondly, by then ‘levantinizing’ the Balkans, in an explicit analogy to Édouard Glissant’s understanding of ‘creolization’ in the Caribbean, it attempts to draw the outlines of a geography of encounters. Finally, it offers a sample of what such a geography might look like and what its literary-historical repercussions might be, bringing together the work of Semezdin Mehmedinović and Etel Adnan.

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Levantinizing the Balkans: 文学地理相遇的大纲

摘要 关于巴尔干半岛“在哪里”的争论似乎夹在国家范式和对世界主义的怀旧之间。本文探讨了该地区的另一种空间映射，向更广泛的东地中海开放，尤其是黎凡特的模糊和有争议的概念。首先，它研究了“黎凡特”和“黎凡特”的各种实例，从土耳其语和希腊语到波斯尼亚/克罗地亚/塞尔维亚的例子——特别关注后者。其次，通过将巴尔干地区“左化”，与爱德华·格利桑特对加勒比地区“克里奥尔化”的理解进行明确类比，它试图勾勒出相遇地理的轮廓。最后，它提供了这样一个地理可能是什么样子的样本以及它的文学历史影响可能是什么，