Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature - The Politics of Time

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.

List 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 Drndi¿'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 Popovi¿'s Histories of Yugoslav Literature and Relation to the Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Literature
Chapter 5: Remembering the Future: Narration and Fabulation in Dubravka Ugreši¿'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

About the author

By Aleksandar Mijatovic

Product details

• Authors: Aleksandar Mijatovi¿, Aleksandar Mijatovic, Mijatovic Aleksandar
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781498580663
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8066-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Russia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Literary theory, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet