Political Novel in the South Slavic Intercultural Context

This book argues that the political novel as a genre in the South Slavic intercultural context is a contradictory, borderline, polyphonic, subversive product of a modernist project that tells the story of an alienated man (political rebel) in totalitarian political regimes.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Contradictions of the Political Novel
2. Svadba: A Borderline Political Novel (Between Social Realism and Modernism)
3. Oscar Davi¿o (Pesma): The Psychological Political Novel and the Entry of the Communist and Fascist Ideology in the Novel
4. Ivo Andri¿ (Prokleta Avlija): The Politics of Identity and Totalitarian Regimes in the Political Novel
5. Polyvalent Picture of the Genre of the Political Novel and Literature in the Seventies
6. Danilo Kiš (Grobnica Za Borisa Davidovi¿a): The Documentary Political Novel
7. The Political Novel Between Documentary and Psychology in Kako Upokojiti Vampira (How to Rest the Vampire) (1977) Borislav Peki¿
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About The Author

About the author

By Ethem Mandic

Product details

• Authors: Ethem Mandi¿, Ethem Mandic
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781666928495
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-849-5
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Eastern Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, Politics & government, Literature: history & criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern