Shoreless bridges : south east European writing in diaspora / edited by Elka Agoston-Nikolova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agoston-Nikolova, Elka.

Series:

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 55.

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics, 0169-0175 ; v. 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavic literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Slavic literature.

Exiles' writings, East European--History and criticism--Congresses.

Exiles' writings, East European.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exiles cross borders, become non-mainstream individuals and break through barriers of thought and experience. Forced or chosen detachment can lead to originality of vision, awareness of simultaneous dimensions – in short a writing that challenges boundaries of genre, monolingualism and national literatures. The writers of the Balkan (Slavic) diaspora offer narratives of critical reflection, strange fusions and unions, representative of the new cultural identities of contemporary Europe. This volume presents an interesting combination of original writer’s essays (by Tzveta Sofronieva, Goran Stefanovski, Dubravka Ugresic) and academic discussions on the function of such narratives, seeking answers to a number of academic questions, related to the construction of the Self in processes of cultural translation/transmission.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Shoreless Bridges / Elka Agoston-Nikolova

Chinese Whispers / Goran Stefanovski

Un-lost in Translation / Tzveta Sofronieva

Telemachus’s Dream / Dubravka Ugrešić

The Temptation of National Identity: The Case of Grigor Părličev / Raymond Detrez

Bulgarian Émigrés and Their Literature: A Gaze from Home / Nikolaj Aretov

The Other Road. On the Bulgarian Topos in the Work of Three Writers Awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize / Penka Angelova

The Water under the Bridge: Tzveta Sofronieva’s Der alte Mann, das Meer, die Frau / Chantal Wright

Goran Stefanovski – A Playwright in the Tower of Babel / Goce Smilevski

Fragments Between Desire and Nostalgia: A Macedonian Case / Maja Bojadžievska

Translating Dubravka Ugrešić and David Albahari / Ellen Elias-Bursać

Exile or Exodus: D. Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and Iliya Troyanov’s The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner / Dimitar Kambourov

Contributors.

Notes:

Papers from a conference held April 2008, University of Groningen.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-64307-X

9786612643071

90-420-3021-6

OCLC:

649477015

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042030213 DOI