
Reading War, Making Memory
Remembering the Bosnian War Across Europe
Berghahn Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 2025
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-1-83695-230-5 (ISBN)
Description
In the fields of literary and memory studies, the cultural impact of the Bosnian War of 1992-1995 appears-despite the scale of devastation-somewhat minimal. Reading War, Making Memory focuses on how authors from the diaspora of the former Yugoslavia have transmitted and translated the realities of the war in their fiction, illuminating how these texts interpolate the culture and memory of Bosnia-Herzegovina into an act of "mnemonic migration." Drawing from close readings, studies of public reception, and focus group interviews, this volume explores the attempt to reshape social frameworks of memory, and the wider reception and impact of memory-making literature across Europe.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-230-5 (9781836952305)
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Tea Sindbæk Andersen is Associate Professor of East European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the contemporary history of southeastern Europe, particularly on issues related to cultural memory, uses of history, identity politics, and popular culture in the Yugoslav area. She is the author of Usable History? Representations of Yugoslavia's Difficult Past from 1945 to 2002 (Aarhus UP, 2012); co-editor with Barbara Törnquist-Plewa of The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Transcultural Mediation and Reception (Brill, 2018); and, with Jessica Ortner, of the Memory Studies special issue on "Memories of Joy" (2019).