Reading War, Making Memory : Remembering the Bosnian War Across Europe. Tea Sindbaek Andersen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sindbæk Andersen, Tea., Author.

Contributor:

Ortner, Jessica.

Borčak, Fedja Wierød.

Series:

Worlds of Memory Series

Worlds of Memory Series ; v.17

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War into their fiction, Reading War, Making Memory spotlights a vital new framework for understanding the impact of conflict upon diasporic literature from the region of the former Yugoslavia: "mnemonic migration.".

Contents:

Reading War, Making Memory

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Portable Monuments: Memory Novels and Fictional Witnessing

Chapter 1. The Experiential Child Witness: Saša Stanišić's Wie Der Soldat Das Grammophon Repariert (How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone)

Memory-Making: The Experiential Mode

Nationalistic Sentiments in the Private Sphere

Experiencing the Bosnian War - The Invasion of Višegrad

Sound, Music, and Silence

The Flight: Aleksandar's Development and the Transformation of the Narrative Mode

The Narrative Mode of the Unfinished

Remembering the Bosnian War - The Return

Football Match as an Allegory of the War

Stanišić's Version of War Memory

Notes

Chapter 2. Memory as a Fictional Trial: Nicol Ljubić's Meeresstille (Stillness of the Sea)

Narrative Structure

The Stillness of the Sea - A Mnemonic Narrative

Antagonism and National Targeting

Contesting Germany's Cultural Memory

Multi-perspectivity

Ljubić's Bosnian War Memory and History Writing

Chapter 3. High- Definition Fictional Witnessing: Aleksandar Hemon's 'A Coin'

The Experiential Mode - Memory of Objects and Affects

One-Way Conversation - Hemon's Play with Genre

Medial Layers

'A Coin' as War Memory

Chapter 4. War Memory Seen Through the Banal Boredom of Refugee Life: Alen Mešković's Ukulele Jam

The Boredom of Life as a Refugee

The Teenage Perspective

Living with Trauma on a Beach

The War as a Jigsaw-Memory

Part II. Public Circulations of Literary Memory

Chapter 5. Quantifiable Success and Public Outreach: The Roles of Publishers, Libraries and Publicity in Mnemonic Migration

Chapter 6. Professional Readings and Public Remediations

Part III. Readers' Reception.

Chapter 7. Reading Saša Stanišić's How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone: Mediations, Emotions and Prosthetic Memory

Chapter 8. Fictional Witnessing and Frameworks of Memory: Engaging with Stanišić's War Memory

Chapter 9. Reading Ljubić, Hemon and Mešković: Mediations, Emotions and Prosthetic Memory

Chapter 10. Interpreting Ljubić, Hemon and Mešković: Targeted Memory Transmissions and Frameworks of Memory

Chapter 11. Fictional Witnessing Returning to Bosnia- Herzegovina: Opening Mnemonic Grey Zones?

Chapter 12. Do Readers Remember One Year Later?

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83695-232-5

OCLC:

1545082557