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Title Post-Yugoslav constellations : archive, memory, and trauma in contemporary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian literature and culture / edited by Vlad Beronja and Stijn Vervaet
Published Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Media and cultural memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung ; volume 22
Media and cultural memory ; 22.
Contents Acknowledgements ; Table of Contents ; Introduction ; 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
Remembering Nowhere: The Homeland-on-the-Move in the Exile Writing of Saša Stanišic and Ismet Prcic The Art and Craft of Memory: Re-Memorialization Practices in Post-Socialist Croatia ; The Evidence of Srebrenica: Oliver Frljic's Theater Court in Cowardice
Intersecting Memories in Post-Yugoslav Fiction: The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s through the Lens of the Holocaust Part 2: Reclaiming the Past: Artistic and Literary Representations of Socialist Yugoslavia ; What Remains of Mostar?: Archive and Witness in Marsela Sunjic's Goodnight, City
Post-Socialism Remembers the Revolution: The Comedy of It Yugoslavia in Post-Yugoslav Artistic Practices: Or, Art as ... ; 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 Small Town as the Scene of a Memory Encounter: Portraits and Commemorations of Radomir Konstantinovic ; Recollecting an Alternative Modernity: Aleksandar Zograf's Flea Market Archaeologies
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
Analysis Cultural memory
former Yugoslavia
media
trauma
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 18, 2019)
Subject Bosnian literature -- History and criticism
Mass media and culture -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatian literature -- History and criticism
Mass media and culture -- Croatia
Serbian literature -- History and criticism
Mass media and culture -- Serbia
Collective memory in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Yugoslav literature -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Eastern.
Bosnian literature
Collective memory in literature
Croatian literature
Mass media and culture
Psychic trauma in literature
Serbian literature
Yugoslav literature
Bosnisch
Serbisch
Kroatisch
Literatur
Kollektives Gedächtnis Motiv
Psychisches Trauma Motiv
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Serbia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Beronja, Vlad, 1984- editor.
Vervaet, Stijn, editor
LC no. 2016011205
ISBN 9783110431575
3110431572
9783110431780
3110431785
9783110431582
3110431580