This course examines successive attempts to define Yugoslav culture across the twentieth century and beyond, from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and finishing with the enduring legacy of this nation-building project. Over the course of the semester, we will focus on the history and politics of Yugoslav culture, and will continue developing analytical and methodological skills. This course will engage with primary texts and secondary scholarship to study the growth and development of a Yugoslav artistic canon and the production of works incorporating a Yugoslav perspective, including literary texts, visual art, sculpture, film, and television. We will examine the essential political platforms of the time—“brotherhood and unity,” third way socialism, and Marxist humanism—and their role in influencing artistic creation. Taught in English; all readings in English.