TY - BOOK ID - 78075823 TI - Burek AU - Mlekuz, Jernej, AU - Vogrinc, Jože PY - 2022 SN - 9633860911 9789633860915 9789633860892 963386089X 9633860903 PB - Budapest New York DB - UniCat KW - Metaphor KW - Food KW - Pies KW - Immigrants KW - Nationalism KW - Popular culture KW - Political culture KW - Discourse analysis KW - Parabole KW - Figures of speech KW - Reification KW - Foods KW - Dinners and dining KW - Home economics KW - Table KW - Cooking KW - Diet KW - Dietaries KW - Gastronomy KW - Nutrition KW - Tarts (Pies) KW - Pastry KW - Emigrants KW - Foreign-born population KW - Foreign population KW - Foreigners KW - Migrants KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Semantics KW - Semiotics KW - Political aspects KW - Symbolic aspects KW - Public opinion. KW - Slovenia KW - Eslovènia KW - L.R.S. (Ljudska republika Slovenija) KW - Ljudska republika Slovenija KW - LRS (Ljudska republika Slovenija) KW - People's Republic of Slovenia KW - Republic of Slovenia KW - Republika Slovenija KW - S.R.S. (Socijalistička Republika Slovenija) KW - S.R. Slovenija KW - Slovenii︠a︡ KW - Slovenija KW - Slowenien KW - Socialist Republic of Slovenia KW - Socialistična republika Slovenija KW - Socijalistička Republika Slovenija KW - SR Slovenija KW - SRS (Socijalistička Republika Slovenija) KW - Szlovénia KW - Social life and customs. KW - Politics and government. KW - Anthropology, Balkan, Cultural studies, Food, Identity, Nationalism, Social life and customs. KW - Primitive societies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78075823 AB - "'As Simple as Burek' is a saying current among young people in Slovenia. But in his book, Jernej Mlekuž holds just the opposite. The burek--a pie made of pastry dough filled with various fillings, well-known in the Balkans, Turkey (bürek), and also in the Near East by other names--whether on the plate or as a cultural artifact, is in fact not that simple. After a brief stroll though its innocent history, before parasitical ideologies had attached themselves to the burek and poisoned its discourses, Mlekuž focuses on the present. In Slovenia, the burek has become a loaded metaphor for the Balkans and immigrants from the republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Without the burek it would be equally difficult to consider the jargon of Slovenian youth, the imagined world of Slovenian chauvinism and the rhetorical arsenal of advertising agents when promoting healthy foods. In this analysis therefore, the burek is always what Mlekuž calls the metaburek. It is greasy, Balkan, Slovene, not-Slovene, the greatest, eastern, the best, shit, oriental, unhealthy, plebian, Yugoslav, junk, a cherub (burek spelled backwards is kerub, the Slovene word for cherub). And this metaburek, which is the protagonist of this book, is never a completely pure, innocent, unconditioned burek. It is much more than just a burek. And a word of warning: after consuming this text, the burek will never be the same"--Provided by pubolisher. ER -