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Post-Yugoslav Constellations
This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different media and technologies, such as text and image, the cinema and the new digital media, on transmediality, intermediality, and remediation, as well as on the social (and increasingly transnational and transcultural) contexts of mediated memory. The aim of the series is to provide a vibrant international platform for research and scholarly exchange in the field of media and memory studies. Manuscripts submitted to the series are peer reviewed by expert referees.
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Roguish Self-Fashioning and Questing in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything”
This paper examines self-fashioning in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything,” a story about a Sarajevo teenager’s journey through ex-Yugoslavia to the Slovenian town of Murska Sobota. His aim? “[T]o buy a freezer chest for my family” (39). While in transit, the first-person narrator imagines himself a rogue of sorts; the fictional journey he takes, meanwhile, is clearly within the quest tradition. The paper argues that “Everything” is an unruly text because by the end of the story the reader must jettison the conventional reading traditions the quest narrative evokes. What begins as a comic tale about a minor journey opens out, in the story’s final lines, into a story about larger historical concerns, namely, the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. By introducing contemporary history, Hemon points beyond the closed world of his short story, while rejecting the quest pattern he has established.
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Rereading and Studying on The Woman from Sarajevo (Gospodjica)
The book The Woman from Sarajevo (Gospodjica) is one of the important novels written by Serbian writer Ivo Andric who once lived through the world war and worked in significant department of the country. This novel is not only the product of that period of time but also his only long psychological one which represents his interest in describing the mental states of the main characters. It is a purely psychological study of greed from the point of the pathology and obsession. It also shows his greatness in writing which helps him win the Nobel Prize in literature for his epic force of tracing themes and depicting human destinies drawn from the history of his country. This novel describes the real experience of a single woman named Raica Radakovic from a unique perspective, unfolding the ordinary people’s life and fate in historical tide. It depicts Raica’s life experience objectively, showing the author’s philosophical reflection on people’s life and fate, which makes this novel demonstrate its objective and profound artistic style.
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Kiš in Andrić – možna poetološka vzporednica
The author's point of departure is the observation that both Andrić and Kiš use historical documents in the process of their writing, although they achieve that in different ways. This difference is examined in the context of a monumental challenge to which both authors had to respond, i.e., the dominance of information over the story. The poetological reaction to this challenge is different for each author, but a certain position is common to both of them: they both differentiate between the officially accepted history, which they equate with fiction, and non-accepted knowledge about the past. They believe that literature has the power to gather elements of this non-accepted knowledge about the past and confront the official history with them.
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Intertekstualni vidiki kronotopa uboja na hisnem pragu pri Ivu Andricu in Gabrielu Garcíi Márquezu v luci semiotike kulture1
The unexplored chronotope of a murder at the doorstep in the novels Omer-Pasha Latas by Ivo Andric and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, motivated by sexuality, is compared and culturally considered in a semiodc key of the theory of the semiosphere from the aspect of intertextuality. In its system of self-description, every culture regulates relationships in the domain of its crucial interrogative aspects and prescribes what is right and what is wrong. This is also done in the area of sexuality. In cultures that are similar to each other, such as those coded by traditional and patriarchal values in synergy with religious norms, semio- spherical self-description, according to the principles of modularity, encodes similar relations towards major aspects of life, including issues of gender relations. Therefore, semiospherical cores (such as the Bosnian one in the mid-nineteenth century and the Latin American one at the beginning of the twentieth century) are seemingly different in appearance. However, in their self-description and establishment, they actually recombine similar modules: cultural patterns towards gender and behavior towards failure to respect customs. A patriarchal family in such cultures emerges as an important agent. In this regard, intertextual aspects are highlighted in structuring the description and narrative settings of the referent texts, as well as important aspects of the poetics of intertextual motifs of the chronotope of the murder at the doorstep as a symbol of protection and shelter. This is an invariant symbol in all cultures, which is surprisingly similar in its rhetorical and dramaturgical aspects in the two Nobel Prize winners Ivo Andric and Gabriel García Márquez.
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