Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film
Author: Gordana P. Crnkovic
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441171770

Reveals select post-Yugoslav literary and cinema works as groundbreaking exploratory achievements of global relevance.

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film
Author: Gordana P. Crnkovic
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1628926597

The 1990s violence in the Former Yugoslavia, the worst in Europe since World War II, triggered the conversion of multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and cosmopolitan areas of idiosyncratic and independent socialism into regions of xenophobic nationalism, wars, and, afterwards, Western-style democracy and capitalism. Unified by their artistic response to these cataclysmic changes, post-Yugoslav literary works and films have much to offer the wider world. Crnkovic reveals select post-Yugoslav literary and cinema works as groundbreaking exploratory achievements of global relevance. She presents post-Yugoslav literature and film as art that makes us aware of previously unconsidered things that bring us wars, and those that constitute part of the tapestry of peace. She foregrounds the radical potential of art to change and enrich the global landscapes of concepts, sensitivities, and politics. As such her book is important not only for those interested in this region, but also for all those wanting to discover and engage with world literature and cinema, and willing to encounter the potential of great new art to illuminate and challenge the world we live in.

Disintegration in Frames

Disintegration in Frames
Author: Pavle Levi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780804753685

Disintegration in Frames explores the relationship between aesthetics and ideology in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema, with emphasis on issues of nationalism, internationalism, and interethnic relations.

From Post-Yugoslavia to Female Continent

From Post-Yugoslavia to Female Continent
Author: Tijana Matijevic
Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9783837652093

Women's writing from the former/post-Yugoslavia recollects but also produces the links among the post-Yugoslav present and the Yugoslav past. Drawing attention to an uninterrupted marginalization of women authors, Tijana Matijevic reconceptualizes contemporary literary production from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.

Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time

Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004503145

In Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time: Towards the Temporal Turn in the Critical Study of (Post-)Yugoslav Literatures, authors outline a concept of (post)-Yugoslav temporality and scrutinize its analytical value in the memory and cultural studies.

After Yugoslavia

After Yugoslavia
Author: Radmila Gorup
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013-06-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804787344

The book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the dissolution of the common country. Most of the contributions can be seen as current attempts to make sense of the past and help cultures in transition, as well as to report on them. The volume is a mixture of personal essays and scholarly articles and that combination of genres makes the book both moving and informative. Its importance is unique. While many studies dwell on the causes of the demise of Yugoslavia, this collection touches upon these causes but goes beyond them to identify Yugoslavia's legacy in a comprehensive way. It brings topics and writers, usually treated separately, into fruitful dialog with one another.

Retracing Images

Retracing Images
Author: Daniel Šuber
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 900421030X

Drawing on visual materials (film, art, graffiti, street-art, public advertisement, memorials), the essays of this collection offer detailed views on the cultural and political dynamics that preceded and emerged in the wake of the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990s.

Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory

Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory
Author: Stijn Vervaet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017-11-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317121414

Until now, there has been little scholarly attention given to the ways in which Eastern European Holocaust fiction can contribute to current debates about transnational and transgenerational memory. Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literary narratives about the Holocaust offer a particularly interesting case because time and again Holocaust memory is represented as intersecting with other stories of extreme violence: with the suffering of the non-Jewish South-Slav population during the Second World War, with the fate of victims of Stalinist terror, and with the victims of ethnic cleansing in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. This book examines the emergence and transformations of Holocaust memory in the socialist Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav eras. It discusses literary texts about the Holocaust by Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav writers, situating their oeuvre in the historical and discursive context in which it emerged and paying attention to its reception at the time. The book shows how in the writing of different generational groups (the survivor generation, the 1.5, and the second and third generations), the Holocaust is a motif for understanding the nature of extreme violence, locally and globally. The book offers comparative studies of several authors as well as readings of the work of individual writers. It uncovers forgotten authors and discusses internationally well-known and translated authors such as Danilo Kiš and David Albahari. By focusing on work by Jewish and non-Jewish authors of three generations, it sheds light on the ethical and aesthetical aspects of the transgenerational transmission of Holocaust memory in the Yugoslav context. As such, this book will appeal to both students and scholars of Holocaust studies, cultural memory studies, literary studies, cultural history, cultural sociology, Balkan studies, and Eastern European politics.

Liberated Cinema

Liberated Cinema
Author: Daniel J. Goulding
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253342102

Originally published in 1985, Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience received the first annual "Close-up" award from the Yugoslav Film Institute in 1986 for "outstanding scholarship and for promoting the values of Yugoslav film art internationally." This new edition has been revised and updated throughout. It has been expanded to complete the story of the new Yugoslav cinema of the 1980s and to address major film developments that have taken place in the former Yugoslavia's five successor states. As in his analysis of past periods of Yugoslav cinema, Goulding situates the most recent developments within the context of film economics, state subsidies, and changing patterns of political control. Most significantly, however, he provides an insightful discussion of the ways in which critically important domestic feature films produced or co-produced from 1991 to 2001 reflect on recent brutal internecine warfare and other contemporary social, cultural, and political realities after the breakup of Yugoslavia.