Writing Postcommunism: Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins
Author:   D. Williams
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
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9781349460830


Pages:   231
Publication Date:   16 February 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Writing Postcommunism: Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins


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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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Author:   D. Williams
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
Weight:   0.316kg
ISBN:  

9781349460830


ISBN 10:   1349460834
Pages:   231
Publication Date:   16 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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'

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David Williams is the translator of Dubravka Ugreši?'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.

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