Post-Yugoslav constellations : archive, memory, and trauma in contemporary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian literature and culture / edited by Vlad Beronja and Stijn Vervaet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beronja, Vlad, editor.

Vervaet, Stijn, editor.

Series:

Media and cultural memory ; Volume 22.

Media and Cultural Memory= Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 1613-8961 ; Volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma in literature.

Serbian literature--History and criticism.

Serbian literature.

Collective memory in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Memory in the Balkans has often been described as binding, authoritative, and non-negotiable, functioning as a banner of war. This book challenges such a one-dimensional representation and offers a more nuanced analysis that accommodates frequently ignored instances of transnational solidarity, dialogue, communal mourning and working through a difficult past. Exploring a broad range of memorial practices, the book focuses on the ways in which cultural memory is mediated, performed and critically reworked by literature and the arts in the former Yugoslavia. Against the methodological nationalism of works that study Serbian, Croatian, or Bosniak culture as self-contained, this book examines post-Yugoslav literature, film, visual culture, and politicized art practices from a supranational angle. Not solely focusing on traumatic memories, but also exploring how post-Yugoslav cultural practices mobilize memory for a politics of hope, this volume moves beyond the trauma paradigm that still dominates memory studies. In its scope and approach, the book shows the relevance of the cultural memory of Eastern European citizens and the contribution they can offer to the building of Europe's shared cultural memory and transnational identity.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Introduction: After Yugoslavia - memory on the ruins of history

Part 1: Entangled Legacies of Extreme Violence: Traumatic Memories in the Aftermath of the Yugoslav Successor Wars

"Read and Remember": Ozren Kebo's Sarajevo for Beginners as Ironic Guidebook and Narrative Memorial / Postema, Antje

Remembering Nowhere: The Homeland-on-the-Move in the Exile Writing of Saša Stanišić and Ismet Prcic / Biti, Vladimir

The Art and Craft of Memory: Re-Memorialization Practices in Post-Socialist Croatia / Potkonjak, Sanja / Pletenac, Tomislav

The Evidence of Srebrenica: Oliver Frljić's Theater Court in Cowardice / Jakiša, Miranda

Intersecting Memories in Post-Yugoslav Fiction: The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990's through the Lens of the Holocaust / Vervaet, Stijn

Part 2: Reclaiming the Past: Artistic and Literary Representations of Socialist Yugoslavia

What Remains of Mostar?: Archive and Witness in Marsela Sunjić's Goodnight, City / Demiragić, Ajla

Post-Socialism Remembers the Revolution: The Comedy of It / Jukić, Tatjana

Yugoslavia in Post-Yugoslav Artistic Practices: Or, Art as ... / Dedić, Nikola

Part 3: Reconfiguring the Post-Yugoslav Present: Towards New Forms of Community and Identity

Garbage Heap, Storehouse, Encyclopedia: Metaphors for a Post-Yugoslav Cultural Memory / Snel, Guido

Small Town as the Scene of a Memory Encounter: Portraits and Commemorations of Radomir Konstantinović / Zorić, Vladimir

Recollecting an Alternative Modernity: Aleksandar Zograf's Flea Market Archaeologies / Beronja, Vlad

A Public Language of Grief: Art, Poetry, and Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Bosnia / Arsenijević, Damir / Husanović, Jasmina / Wastell, Sari

Digital Afterlife: Ex-Yugoslav Pop Culture Icons and Social Media / Pogačar, Martin

Notes on Contributors

List of Illustrations

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 10, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110431575

3110431572

9783110431780

3110431785

OCLC:

935921462