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review March 2026

Yugoslav cultural diplomacy and the Global South

Review by Réka Krizmanics
Reflection of the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge shimmering in gently rippling water, its historic stone arches distorted into soft, wavy shapes beneath a blue sky with scattered clouds, with trees framing the scene.
In Nonaligned Imagination (Northwestern University Press, 2025), Nataša Kovačević examines transnational encounters and the networks that emerged among Yugoslav writers, academics, literary critics, and diplomats and their counterparts across the Global South. Réka Krizmanics writes that the book provides a rich and densely contextualized account of the emergence of non-aligned cultural production.
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