The text was importantly written on the brink of World War II it is a close examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia, discussing three trips that West took between 19 while interweaving her travel narrative with a thorough history and ethnography of the region. Timothy Wientzen also described it is a ‘massively ambitious 1941 travelogue’ which offers a ‘meditation on the history and culture of the Balkans … a region West (rightly) feared would soon come under the domination of fascism’. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), Andrew Hammond highlights, is a prime example of a travelogue that would ‘most surely be considered one of the greatest works of the modernist period if only it had not been written in a genre (travel writing) and on a region (Eastern Europe) marginalised alike in British literary studies’. Rebecca West, in recent years, has been rediscovered in her own right.
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