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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.

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Author:   Aleksandar Mijatovic
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9781498580663

ISBN 10:   1498580661
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   03 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: A Temporality of the Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Literature: A Critical Approach toward (Post)-Yugoslav Studies? Chapter1: The ‘Post-’ of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures: An Outline of the Literary Study of the Temporalities of Parentheses and Hyphens Chapter 2: The Time of Dispossession: The Conflict, Composition and Geophilosophy of Revolution in East Central Europe Chapter 3: The Time of Disappearing—From Memory to Becoming-(Post)-Yugoslav in Daša Drndić’s novel Leica Format: Reading the Dissolution of (Post)-Yugoslav Time through Bergson’s, Benjamin’s, and Deleuze’s Concepts of Temporality Chapter 4: The Mono-chronological ‘Post’: The Synchronization of the Meanwhiles of Nations in Antun Barac’s and Pavle Popović’s Histories of Yugoslav Literature and Relation to the Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Literature Chapter 5: Remembering the Future: Narration and Fabulation in Dubravka Ugrešić’s novels The Ministry of Pain and Baba Yaga Laid an Egg Chapter 6: The Floating Middle: (Post)modern Time, Transition, and (Post)-Yugoslav Literature Chapter 7: The Voice of the Mother’s Secret—The Secret of the Mother’s Voice: The Acoustics of Memory in David Albahari's Novel Bait

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In the present of unfinished and devastating post-socialist transition, the struggle for meaning and comprehension of historical experiences continues. Taking its insights from literature, and drawing on a sophisticated grasp of theories of temporality, Aleksandar Mijatovic makes the powerful claim that cultural forms of writing demonstrate notions of belonging that transcend governmental and nation-state teleologies. This is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding post-Yugoslav cultural spaces.--Uros Cvoro, University of New South Wales Mijatovic's book underlines the importance of temporal structures in defining literary phenomena, thus especially reconsidering actual approaches to (post)-Yugoslav literature. Social, economic, and political processes are therefore interpreted as pure deflections, unwilling to be subordinated or framed by a single historical or ideological flow, whereby the term of '(post)-Yugoslav literature, ' as an asynchronous simultaneity, often engages with its counterparts--i.e. transnationalism, cosmopolitism and multiculturalism--in a most compelling way. The author offers a vivid understanding of the idea of national literature, as well as its representative figures--Antun Barac and Pavle Popovic, Dasa Drndic, Dubravka Ugresic, David Albahari etc.--stemming from different discourses and origins--from ethnic, linguistic, social, class, racial, cultural, all the way to tribal, thus utterly fragmented and partial. State-centered concepts of literary field, as well as those endorsed by linguistic advocacy, are therefore successfully deconstructed by Mijatovic's employment of asynchronous simultaneity, inspired by various notions of time as discussed by Bergson, Benjamin, Bhabha, Deleuze, Levinas, Lyotard, Massumi, and Ricoeur.--Leo Rafolt, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek

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Aleksandar Mijatović is associate professor in the department of Croatian language and literature at the University of Rijeka.

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