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The Prince Of Fire
Winner of the 1998 Misha Djordjevic Award for the best book on Serbian culture in English.Editors Gorup and Obradovic have collected stories from thirty-five outstanding writers in this first English anthology of Serbian fiction in thirty years. The anthology, representing a great variety of literary styles and themes, includes works by established writers with international reputations, as well as promising new writers spanning the generation born between 1930 and 1960. These stories may lead to a greater understanding of the current events in the former Yugoslavia.
Voices in the Shadows
"Women are conspicuously absent from traditional cultural histories of South-East Europe. This book addresses that imbalance by describing the contribution of women to literary culture in the Orthodox/Ottoman areas of Serbia and Bosnia."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe
Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites--multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions--that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the flow of hybrid cultural messages. By focusing on the literary cultures of specific geographical locations, this volume intends to put into practice a new type of comparative study. Traditional comparative literary studies establish transnational comparisons and contrasts, but thereby reconfirm, howev.
Haunted Serbia
Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of the past, re-remembering the cruelty of the twentieth century, reinterpreting the heroic role of the Partisans and the extraordinary measures taken to defend Yugoslavia’s recently won independence and socialist revolution. Their uncanny and ghostly imagery challenges the assumptions of the master discourse promoted by the country’s orthodox communist authorities and questions the historical roots of social and cultural identities. The instability of this period of transition is deepened during the wars of the 1990s, when authors turn from the memory of past violence to face the ferocious brutality of new conflicts. The haunting evocations in their work continue to articulate fresh uncertainties as the trappings of modern civilization are stripped away and replaced by the destructive logic of civil war. The past returns once more with renewed energy in the struggle to make sense of a vastly changed world.
The Prose Fiction of Danilo Kiš, Serbian Jewish Writer
Analyzes three pseudo-autobiographical novels by Kiš (1935-1989), constituting his "family cycle": "Garden, Ashes" (1965), "Early Sorrows" (1969), and "Hourglass" (1972). Kiš was born to a Hungarian Jewish father and a Montenegrin mother. The war caught his family in Novi Sad, in the Hungarian-annexed part of Vojvodina, where his father Eduard Kiš narrowly escaped being killed (by the Hungarians) during a massacre of Jews and Serbs in January 1942. His family fled to Hungary, where they lived as destitute refugees until Eduard was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. The three books are based on the experiences of Danilo Kiš and his family during the war. The books are three attempts, varying in genre, to come to terms with the painful experiences of Kiš's childhood and the disappearance of his father in the Holocaust.
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
"Kis is one of the handful of incontestably major writers of the second half of the century . . . Danilo Kis preserves the honor of literature." Partisan Review
