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

In the fields of literary and memory studies, the cultural impact of the Bosnian War of 1992-1995 appears-despite the scale of devastation-somewhat minimal. Reading War, Making Memory focuses on how authors from the diaspora of the former Yugoslavia have transmitted and translated the realities of the war in their fiction, illuminating how these texts interpolate the culture and memory of Bosnia-Herzegovina into an act of "mnemonic migration." Drawing from close readings, studies of public reception, and focus group interviews, this volume explores the attempt to reshape social frameworks of memory, and the wider reception and impact of memory-making literature across Europe.

About the author

Tea Sindbæk Andersen is Associate Professor of East European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the contemporary history of southeastern Europe, particularly on issues related to cultural memory, uses of history, identity politics, and popular culture in the Yugoslav area. She is the author of Usable History? Representations of Yugoslavia's Difficult Past from 1945 to 2002 (Aarhus UP, 2012); co-editor with Barbara Törnquist-Plewa of The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Transcultural Mediation and Reception (Brill, 2018); and, with Jessica Ortner, of the Memory Studies special issue on "Memories of Joy" (2019).

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
• Released: 15.10.2025
• EAN: 9781836952305
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-230-5
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Worlds of Memory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; 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