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Writing the Yugoslav Wars : Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation / Dragana Obradovic.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Obradović, Dragana, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yugoslav War (1991-1995).
- 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.
- Yugoslavia.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- University of Toronto Press 2017
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 War, Postmodernism, and Literary Immanence
- 2 The Spectacle of the Siege
- 3 The Phantasmagoria and Seduction of Kitsch
- 4 The Search for a Language of the Historical Present
- 5 The Quickened Moral Pulse
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-2956-8
- 1-4875-1469-7
- 1-4426-2955-X
- OCLC:
- 987451353
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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