Writing Postcommunism
Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins
Published on 16. August 2013
Book
Hardback
XI, 231 pages
978-1-137-33007-9 (ISBN)
Description
Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.
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Edition
2013 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
XI, 231 p.
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-33007-9 (9781137330079)
DOI
10.1057/9781137330086
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David Williams is the translator of Dubravka Ugresi?'s Karaoke Culture (2011) and Miljenko Jergovi?'s Mama Leone (2012). He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, has taught at the Universities of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Belgrade and Novi Sad, Serbia; and Auckland, New Zealand, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Leipzig and Konstanz, Germany.
Content
Introduction: Exercises in Polysemy 1. 'The Citizen of a Ruin' 2. Unconditional Surrender and the Ruins of Berlin 3. Aporias, Impasses, and Ostalgia 4. Trümmerliteratur Redux Epilogue: 'The Future Has No Future'