This study of contemporary literature from the former Yugoslavia (Post-Yugoslavia) follows the ways in which the feminist writing of gender, body, sexuality, and social and cultural hierarchies brings to light the past of socialist Yugoslavia, its cultural and literary itineraries and its dissolution in the Yugoslav wars. The analysis also focuses on the particularities of different feminist writings, together with their picturing of possible futures. The title of the book suggests an attempt to interpret post-Yugoslav literature as feminist writing, but also a process of conceptualizing a post-Yugoslav literary field, in this study represented by contemporary fiction from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.
Price: $85.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date:
30 January 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837652093
Format: Paperback
»Ein Buch voller detaillierter Beschreibungen und Analysen, welche von hoher Relevanz für den Umgang Post-Jugoslawiens mit der Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft sind. Eine aufschlussreiche Lektüre für Menschen, denen es nicht um leichte und vorgefertigte Antworten geht.«
Tijana Matijevic (PhD), is independent researcher currently teaching post-Yugoslav literature, culture, and languages at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Her research focuses on the feminist writing and the continuities between the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literatures.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
I Introduction: On Post-Yugoslavia and the Female Continent 7
II Women's Writing and Critical Nostalgia: On Ildiko Lovas' Fiction 35
III Post-Yugoslav Écriture Féminine 65
IV The Other Writing: Atonement and Female Authorship in Snezana Andrejevi's and Luka Bekavac's Fiction 117
V What to Do With the Past? Feminist Literary Historiographies I: Olja Savievi Ivanevi's Adio, kauboju 151
VI What to Do With the Past? Feminist Literary Historiographies II: Slobodan Tisma's Bernardijeva soba 189
VII Conclusions. Inherited Possibility, Or: Choosing The Optimal Variant 251
Bibliography 257
