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To introduce the problem of identity and the wars in former Yugoslavia, I begin with the words of a refugee boy from Croatia. In a school in Belgrade the children were asked to describe in writing how they felt about who they are. The boy wrote: ‘I am nobody.’ When asked why he felt this way, he replied: ‘Because my father is from Croatia, my mother from Serbia. Where am I from?’1
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Korać, M. (1996). Understanding Ethnic-National Identity in Times of War and Social Change. In: Pynsent, R.B. (eds) The Literature of Nationalism. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24685-4_11
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