From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent - A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature

This study of contemporary literature from the former Yugoslavia (Post-Yugoslavia) follows the ways in which the feminist writing of gender, body, sexuality, and social and cultural hierarchies brings to light the past of socialist Yugoslavia, its cultural and literary itineraries and its dissolution in the Yugoslav wars. The analysis also focuses on the particularities of different feminist writings, together with their picturing of possible futures. The title of the book suggests an attempt to interpret post-Yugoslav literature as feminist writing, but also a process of conceptualizing a post-Yugoslav literary field, in this study represented by contemporary fiction from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.

Summary

This study of contemporary literature from the former Yugoslavia (Post-Yugoslavia) follows the ways in which the feminist writing of gender, body, sexuality, and social and cultural hierarchies brings to light the past of socialist Yugoslavia, its cultural and literary itineraries and its dissolution in the Yugoslav wars. The analysis also focuses on the particularities of different feminist writings, together with their picturing of possible futures. The title of the book suggests an attempt to interpret post-Yugoslav literature as feminist writing, but also a process of conceptualizing a post-Yugoslav literary field, in this study represented by contemporary fiction from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.

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»A book full of detailed descriptions and analyses that are highly relevant to how post-Yugoslavia deals with the future. An insightful read for people who are not interested in easy and ready-made answers.«

Report

»Ein Buch voller detaillierter Beschreibungen und Analysen, welche von hoher Relevanz für den Umgang Post-Jugoslawiens mit der Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft sind. Eine aufschlussreiche Lektüre für Menschen, denen es nicht um leichte und vorgefertigte Antworten geht.«

Jasen Philipps, www.kritisch-lesen.de, 13.04.2021 20210414

Product details

• Authors: Tijana Matijevic
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2020
• EAN: 9783837652093
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-5209-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 20 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Lettre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Gender Studies, Gender, Literature, Cultural History, Literary Studies, Culture, Feminism, Slavic Studies, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Slawische Literatur, Post-Yugoslav Literature, Women's Writing, General & world history, Social Sciences, Gay & Lesbian studies, Violence in society, Culture and institutions, Social processes, Groups of people, History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines, Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, East Indo-European and Celtic literatures, Russia and neighboring east European countries, (Post-)Yugoslavia