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From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent
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.
Creating Europe from the Margins
This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations and tensions inherent in divisions between the Global North and the Global South as well as internal regional differentiation within Europe itself. In doing so, the volume stresses the need to consider Europe from critical interdisciplinary perspectives, highlighting historical and contemporary issues of racism and colonialism. While recent discussions of migration into ‘Fortress Europe’ seem to assume that Europe has clearly demarcated geographic, political and cultural boundaries, this book argues that the reality is more complex. The book expl...
Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time
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.
Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature
This book examines the theoretical devices of "Yugoslav" and "post-Yugoslav" literature. The author analyzes selected literary examples from the region through the lens of a contemporary post-Deleuzean philosophy of time, extricating discussions of post-ism from traditional chronological framing.
Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe
The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy. Southeastern Europe is characterized by a high degree of ethnical, religious and cultural diversity. Jews, whether Sephardim, Ashkenazim or Romaniots – settling there in different periods – experienced divergent life worlds which engendered rich cultural production. Though recent scholarly and popular interest in this heterogeneous region has grown impressively, Jewish cultural production is still an under-researched area. The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy, thus creating a dialogue between Jewish studies, Balkan studies, and current literary and cultural theories.
European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century
This book rethinks the study of European Cinema in a way that centres on students and their needs, in a comprehensive volume introducing undergraduates to the main discourses, directions and genres of twenty-first-century European film. Importantly, this collection is the first of its kind to apply a transversal approach to European Cinema, bringing together the East and the West, while providing a broad picture of key trends, aesthetics, genres, national identities, and transnational concerns. Lewis and Canning’s collection effectively addresses some of the most pressing questions in contemporary European film, such as ecology, migration, industry, identity, disability, memory, auteurship, genre, small cinemas, and the national and international frameworks which underpin them. Combining accessible original research with a thorough grounding in recent histories and contexts, each chapter includes key definitions, reflective group questions, and a summative case study. Overall, this book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of recent European Cinema, making it an invaluable resource for lecturers and students across a variety of film-centred modules.
Narrative des Wandels
Der Band ist ein Versuch, auf die Transformationsprozesse der europäischen Gesellschaften, die ab 1989 in Mittel- und Osteuropa stattgefunden haben, zurückzublicken und ihre literarischen, historischen und kulturellen Zeugnisse zu analysieren, die innerhalb von mehr als dreißig Jahren in ausgewählten postsozialistischen Ländern (Polen, Russland und Balkanländer) entstanden sind. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Bandes liegt auf Erzählweisen über Gesellschaften im Wandel, auf der kulturellen Symbolik dieser Zeit, auf der Darstellung des Weges zur Demokratisierung der Kultur, des öffentlichen Lebens und der Institutionen. Im Zentrum des Interesses stehen ebenfalls die Formen der Regionalisierung von Kulturen, der Emanzipation von Sprachen und kleineren Kulturen oder neu entstehende Identitätsdiskurse und ihr Einfluss auf Gesellschaften. Die Begriffe von Nation, Gemeinschaft und Erinnerung spielen dabei eine wichtige Rolle.
Avala Is Falling
In Avala Is Falling, Jovanović’s breakout success in 1978, a young woman challenges the expectations that teachers, parents, bus drivers, and doctors have for her. The “Avala” of the title refers to a mountain south of Belgrade which is home to some of Serbia’s most important nationalist monuments and shrines; it is also the site of the main mental hospital for the region, and its “falling” is the unexpected fulfillment of a prophecy from a traditional Serbian folk song. Jovanović’s use of stream of consciousness in her characters’ thinking and speaking, as well as of intertextuality in description and plot advancement heralded the arrival of an innovative new writer who was determined to break with the of traditional concerns of earlier women writers. This book is now recognized as much more than “jeans prose,” although the fame the book achieved under that characterization eventually pushed it to cult status. Jovanović is now considered a major avant-garde writer, whose stylistic innovations were as challenging as her women-centered themes.
(Südost-)Europa. Narrative der Bewegtheit
Südosteuropa hat vielfältige Narrative hervorgebracht, in denen Figuren, Konstruktionen und Ordnungen der ‚Bewegtheit‘ verankert sind. Um diese zu ergründen, entfaltet der Band verschiedene Perspektiven auf folgende Untersuchungsfelder: Mobilität, Migration und IdentitätRäume und GenresEmpathie, Emotion und Tabus. Die Beiträge verdeutlichen, wie der Begriff ‚Bewegtheit‘ in der Literatur- und Kulturtheorie sowie in literarischen, kulturellen und historischen Narrativen Südosteuropas vieldeutig, polyfunktional und wandelbar zwischen ‚äußerer Bewegung‘ und ‚innerem Bewegtsein‘ pendelt.
Grenzräume – Grenzbewegungen
Der vorliegende Sammelband vereinigt die Beiträge der 12. und 13. Tagung des Jungen Forums Slavistische Literaturwissenschaft (JFSL) in Basel 2013 und Frankfurt (Oder) und Słubice 2014. Unter den thematischen Leitbegriffen Grenzräume – Grenzbewegungen präsentiert er Einblicke in die Arbeit von Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftlern der deutschsprachigen slavischen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft.
