Reading War, Making Memory - Remembering the Bosnian War Across Europe

A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War into their fiction, Reading War, Making Memory spotlights a vital new framework for understanding the impact of conflict upon diasporic literature from the region of the former Yugoslavia: "mnemonic migration."

About the author

Fedja Wierød Borčak holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and is currently a Research Assistant at the School of Culture and Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark. His main research interests include post-Yugoslav literature, and he has written on the figure of the child in Bosnian-Herzegovinian fiction as well as themes of mobility and diasporic writing.

Product details

• Authors: Tea Sindbæk Andersen, Tea Sindbk Ortner Andersen, Tea Sindbk Ortner Andersen Andersen, Fedja Wierød Borčak, Ortner Jessica
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.10.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781836952305
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-230-5
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Worlds of Memory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; military history, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, Bosnian, Memory Studies, Literary Studies, Heritage Studies, Memory Studies; Literary Studies; Heritage Studies, Literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina