Writing Postcommunism - Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.

Table des matières

Introduction: Exercises in Polysemy 1. 'The Citizen of a Ruin' 2. Unconditional Surrender and the Ruins of Berlin 3. Aporias, Impasses, and Ostalgia 4. Trümmerliteratur Redux Epilogue: 'The Future Has No Future'

A propos de l'auteur

David Williams is the translator of Dubravka Ugreši?'s Karaoke Culture (2011) and Miljenko Jergovi?'s Mama Leone (2012). He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, has taught at the Universities of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Belgrade and Novi Sad, Serbia; and Auckland, New Zealand, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Leipzig and Konstanz, Germany.

Résumé

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: D Williams, D. Williams
• Edition: Springer, Berlin
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349460830
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46083-0
• Pages: 231
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 13 mm x 216 mm
• Illustrations: XI, 231 p.
• Thèmes: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature; Palgrave Studies in Modern Eur
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; B, Europe, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Ethnology—Europe, European Culture, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Europe, Eastern—History, History of specific lands, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Russia—History, Literature: history and criticism