Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time
Towards the Temporal Turn in the Critical Study of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures
Published on 25. November 2021
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-90-04-50313-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-50313-7 (9789004503137)
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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).
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).
Content
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 Ugresic, 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 Parezanin
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 Kis
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
?Sasa Stanic and Marina Biti
12 Writing against the Code and Fitting in with the Code: Reading Dubravka Ugresic 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 Pavsic
Index
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 Ugresic, 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 Parezanin
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 Kis
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
?Sasa Stanic and Marina Biti
12 Writing against the Code and Fitting in with the Code: Reading Dubravka Ugresic 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 Pavsic
Index