Author Archives: Elena Veljanovska

download printer friendly version Group Terms A short overview Today, the festivals that exist on the ground of former Yugoslavia, because of its versatile character and function, can be divided into several ways. Though, for better overview, we will offer one classification for which we consider to be valid and under which all festivals can [...]

download printer friendly version Group Terms The festival, in its primary meaning, understands a “celebration”. At the same time, represents a substitute for socialization. It is polysemic and “hides” the ideas for community, liminal/liminoid, temporality, excess, production, real time, emancipation, present-absent, transformation, transfiguration, intertextuality, local, national, regional, international, hypertext, ideology, margin, centre, power, anti-utopia, Otherness, [...]