Writing Postcommunism - Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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'

List of contents

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'

Product details

• Authors: D Williams, D. Williams, David Williams
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349460847
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46084-7
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature; Palgrave Studies in Modern Eur; Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Europe, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Ethnology—Europe, European Culture, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Europe, Eastern—History, History of specific lands, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Russia—History, Literature: history and criticism