Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time

Towards the Temporal Turn in the Critical Study of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50313-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 65, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

Reihe: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics

In this collection of essays, authors propose a temporal shift in (post-)Yugoslav studies. By taking into account select examples from literature, art, and culture, the volume questions a possibility of explaining the temporal structure underlying the theoretical and analytical concepts employed in understanding (post-)Yugoslav literature(s) and culture(s). Analyses undertaken in the essays showcase that the (post-)Yugoslav literary, artistic, and cultural practices do not only attempt to portray the demise of the state and the succeeding war between its former republics. Instead, the authors underscore that the critical (post-)Yugoslav studies task is to evince and critically reflect on and engage with the processes before and after the dissolution to capture the collapse itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mijatovic, Aleksandar

Willems, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Südslawische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Aleksandar Mijatovic and Brian Willems

Part 1: The Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Time

Section 1: Time Unbound: De-synchronized Temporalities of Modernity, the (Neo)-Avant-Garde, Post-modernity, and the Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Literature

1 Past Fragments, Future Change: Dubravka Ugrešic, Vladan Desnica, Sanja Ivekovic, and Dalibor Martinis

Brian Willems

2 “The Historical Moment before Our Eyes”: On Producing Post-Yugoslav Literature

Tijana Matijevic

3 Whose (Neo-)Avant-Garde? The Poetry of Josip Sever, Yugoslav Modernity, and the Problem of Mononational Literary History

Lujo Parežanin

Section 2: From the Time That Belongs to No-One to Temporalities of Non-belonging

4 The End of the World as We Know It? Anti-utopia in Post-Yugoslav Literature

Boris Postnikov

5 Post-Yugoslav Dystopian Dilemmas and Writing the History of the Future: Alternative Version or Parodic Subversion?

Miranda Levanat-Pericic

6 Kant Has Some Relevance Here: On a Fictional Theory of Quentin Meillassoux and the Theoretical Fiction of Luka Bekavac

Ante Jeric

7 The Narrative Out of Time: The Nonhuman World of Luka Bekavac’s Fiction

Matija Jelaca and Anera Ryznar

Part 2: Application(s) of/to (Post)-Yugoslav Time

Section 1: Unhinging Memory and Space: Remembering (Post)-Yugoslav Time

8 Re-reading/Writing Yugoslav Pasts and Presents in Post-Yugoslav Literature: Between (Yugo-)Nostalgia and “Lateral Networks”

Mirko Milivojevic

9 Spaces of Memory in Dragan Velikic’s Novel Investigator

Danijela Marot Kiš

10 In Search of Home Time

Kujtim Rrahmani

Section 2: De-composing Broken Bonds: The Culture of Non-relational Relation

11 Cultural Values and the Circularity of ‘Transition’ in Croatia: Post-war Literature and Film

Saša Stanic and Marina Biti

12 Writing against the Code and Fitting in with the Code: Reading Dubravka Ugrešic in the Context of the International Literary Field

Iva Kosmos

13 Narrations of Lost and Found: The Twists and Turns of the Friendship Discourse in the (Post)Yugoslav Environment

Zala Pavšic

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aleksandar Mijatovic, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory and History at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka. He has recently authored the book Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature: The Politics of Time (2020).

Brian Willems, Ph.D., European Graduate School, is Associate Professor of Literature and Film at the University of Split. His most recent books are Zug efekt (2021) and Speculative Realism and Science Fiction (2017).