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- Title
CROSSING BORDERS: FROM (EX-)YUGOSLAVIA TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
- Authors
Snejana UNG
- Abstract
Starting with the 1990s a myriad of literary texts that tackle the Yugoslav wars has been published worldwide. Despite the wide variety of texts, scholars (Obradovic, Pisac, Vervaet, Wachtel) have focused mainly on those written by ex-Yugoslav writers and on the representation of the former country in these books. This paper focuses on the aforementioned literary phenomenon - the representation of ex-Yugoslavia - from a broader perspective. My selection includes texts that originate in different geo-cultural areas. In this respect, the aim of this paper is to show that former Yugoslavia is not the only space represented in this cluster of texts. Other countries and cities, such as Germany, Ukraine, Amsterdam, or Shanghai, also play a significant role. I argue that the occurrence of these various spaces reveals a paradoxical pattern: the closer to ex-Yugoslavia the writer is or was, the more diverse the fictional spaces are, as well as vice versa. However, this geo-cultural diversity that defines post-Yugoslav migrant writers is constantly disregarded by critics, cultural journalists, and scholars, which is an indication of the hegemonic character of world literature.
- Subjects
YUGOSLAVIA; BORDER crossing; LITERATURE; LITERARY characters; RURAL-urban relations; AUTHORS
- Publication
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies & Theory, 2020, Vol 6, Issue 1, p44
- ISSN
2457-8827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24193/mjcst.2020.9.04