TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mlekuz,Jernej
AU  - Vogrinc,Jože
TI  - Burek: A Culinary Metaphor 
SN  - 9789633860915
U1  - 306.4429184 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Budapest, New York : 
PB  - Central European University Press, 
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Slovenia
KW  - Food
KW  - Symbolic aspects
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Pies
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Slovenia--Politics and government
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology, Balkan, Cultural studies, Food, Identity, Nationalism, Social life and customs
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Foreburek --; Preburek --; Towards the Burek --; About the Burek --; Afterburek --; Burekbibliography --; Burekindex; restricted access
N2  - “As simple as burek” is a popular phrase used by many young people in Slovenia. In this book Jernej Mlekuž maintains that the truth is just the opposite. The burek is a pie made of pastry dough filled with various fillings that is well-known in the Balkans, and also in Turkey and the Near East by other names. Whether on the plate or as a cultural artifact, it is in fact, not that simple. After a brief stroll through its innocent history, Mlekuž focuses on the present state of the burek, after parasitical ideologies had attached themselves to it and poisoned its discourses. 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, Mlekuž refers to the burek as the “metaburek.” All at the same time it is greasy, Balkan, Slovene, not-Slovene, Yugoslavian, familiar, foreign, the greatest, the worst, disturbingly unhealthy, plebeian, junk food, and finally, a cherub (burek spelled backwards is kerub, the Slovene word for cherub). And this metaburek, the protagonist of this book, is never a completely pure, innocent, unconditioned burek. It is much more. A word of warning: after consuming this text, the burek will never be the same
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633860915
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633860915
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633860915/original
ER  -