Writing the Yugoslav wars : literature, postmodernism, and the ethics of representation / Dragana Obradović.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Obradović, Dragana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yugoslav literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Yugoslav literature.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Literature and the war.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

War and literature--Yugoslavia--History--20th century.

War and literature.

Postmodernism--Yugoslavia.

Postmodernism.

History.

Yugoslavia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

219 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016.

Summary:

"In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region's literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country's disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists. This book takes a transnational approach to literatures of the former Yugoslavia that have been, since the 1990s, studied separately, in line with geopolitical divisions. This post-socialist conflict was one of the moments that reshaped postmodernism for both local and international thinkers, much in the same way modernism was shaped by World War I and the advent of mechanized warfare."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

War, postmodernism, and literary immanence

The spectacle of the siege

The phantasmagoria and seduction of Kitsch

The search for a language of the historical present

The quickened moral pulse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442629547

1442629541

OCLC:

950450989

Publisher Number:

99969295354