Aleksandar Mijatovic

Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature (eBook, PDF)

The Politics of Time

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978755697
• Artikelnr.: 74829683

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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 Dasa Drndic'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 Popovic's Histories of
Yugoslav Literature and Relation to the Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav
Literature
Chapter 5: Remembering the Future: Narration and Fabulation in Dubravka
Ugresic'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