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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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Getting over Europe : the construction of Europe in Serbian culture
The book examines the discursive construction of the representation of \"Europe\" in the selected writings of leading Serbian writers and intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to being of particular significance in the process of the genesis of our understanding of Europe across the continent, these several decades were crucial for the discursive construction of \"Europe\" in Serbian culture: when after the end of the Cold War the debate on Europe became possible again, it was on a discursive level to a large extent determined by the stockpile of images and ideas created between the world wars. The book seeks to answer the following questions: who constructed \"Europe\", and with what authority? For whom were these constructions intended? How was this representation validated? What purposes was it meant to serve? Which issues were raised in comparing \"Europe\" with Serbia, and why? Which textual traditions were the elements of this construction borrowed from? How did the construction of the European other define Serbian self-representation? This volume is of interest for all those working in Slavic or East European studies - especially cultural, intellectual and political history of the Balkans - imagology, and European studies.
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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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The Serbian Folk Epic
This is a thorough and well-documented study, examining the theology and anthropology of the Serbian folk epic. The book opens a new field in Slavic folklore and offers scholars material heretofore not readily available in English. The work sheds light also on the Serbian soul and culture. Conceptions of God, restlessness of the folk poet for the transcendental, the deep ontological, cosmic, and theurgic character of the heroes of the Serbian folk epic, man's destiny, man of culture or man of civilization, are just a few of the topics that the author has concerned himself with in this book.
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Amphibolic space of Central Europe in the writings of Aleksandar Tišma and Danilo Kiš
This article deals with the ideas of Central Europe in the writings of two Yugoslav and Serbian writers Danilo Kiš (1935–1989) and Aleksandar Tišma (1924–2003). Central Europe is, in metaphorical terms, a transitional, central region, an area of passage that is filled with opposites. It is demonstrated that in Kiš’s Hourglass and Tišma’s The Book of Blam (both novels were published in 1972), the region forms a complex literary image of the world of dispersal and disintegration, both in terms of form and content. On the one hand, views of these two writers can be summarized in a well-known and tragic fact that in Central Europe, the heart of Europe, there is also the heart of European darkness symbolized in the Central-European village of Auschwitz. On the other hand, Kiš’s and Tišma’s poetics undoubtedly belong to the geographical and cultural space of a literary Central Europe (marked by Kafka, Musil, Broch). This paper will try to explain how this ambivalent position works as a complex and rich foundation of their fictional work.
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The Vow to Testify: On the Gulag and Intertextual Economy of Literature (Karlo Štajner, Varlam Shalamov, Danilo Kiš)
Departing from the “aesthetics of unrepresentability” of testimonial literature and implied “belatedness and collapse of witnessing” (G. Agamben, Sh. Felman, D. Laub), the paper engages in the economic foundations of literature through analysis of symbolic meanings of economic metaphors in Štajner’s memoirs Seven Thousand Days in Siberia and Shalamov’s story Lend-Lease, and through illuminating different aspects of intertextual and intercultural exchange between Štajner’s memoirs and Kiš’s “pseudo-factual” fiction A Tomb for Boris Davidovich. What is testimony and can it be – considering the nature of the one who testifies and the language in which he testifies – “valid,” “valuable,” “useful,” to use the language of economy? Can we think about Kiš’s literary appropriation of Štajner’s memoirs as an outlet for reclaiming the voice not only of Štajner, but also of Kiš’s father, who perished in Auschwitz? What are the uses of economic hypothesis in literary studies?
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Postmodernizem in zgodovinskost v srbski knjizevnosti. Dvojni angazma srbskega postmodernizma
The contribution looks at the Serbian postmodernist novel and its paradoxical historicity, which was one of the primary reasons for the exclusion of postmodernism from the Serbian literary system. Disapproval took the form of literary-historical omission and a public polemic between the postmodernists and the so-called traditionalist in 1996. Postmodern concepts of history as a reflection of the broader social (scientific and philosophical) context of the latter half of the 20th century also made their way into the Serbian region and profoundly upset the deep-rooted historical perceptions and the concomitant traditional concepts of literary creation. The invalidation of \"grand narratives\" (grand authorities) proved problematic particularly in cultures with a powerful epic tradition, which Serbian certainly is. The Serbian literary system saw this invalidation as detrimental especially in the 90s, which marked a crisis for the Serbian nation during which the need for an engaged literature in the service of tradition/nation was pronounced. Postmodernist literature evades such functionality through its internal (self-referential metafictional) structure, which gained considerable momentum in Serbia at the time as it undertook to separate political and literary discourse, which were closely intertwined in the Serbian literature of the 20th century. We can thus talk of a double implicit engagement of Serbian postmodernism. The contribution outlines the literary-historical development of Serbian postmodernism and Serbian historiographic metafiction. As well, it shows why and in what ways the historicity of literary narration was a subject of conflict in Serbian literature through an overview of some of the central postmodern innovations of historical concepts and their (non)integration into the social-political situation of the national literary system.
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