Writing the Yugoslav Wars : Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation

Obradovic, Dragana

University of Toronto Press（2016/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781442629547
• DDC分類 808.89182

Full Description

 In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region's literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country's disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists. This book takes a transnational approach to literatures of the former Yugoslavia that have been, since the 1990s, studied separately, in line with geopolitical divisions. This post-socialist conflict was one of the moments that reshaped postmodernism for both local and international thinkers, much in the same way modernism was shaped by World War I and the advent of mechanized warfare.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: War, Postmodernism, and Literary Immanence

Chapter 2: The Spectacle of the Siege

Chapter 3: The Phantasmagoria and Seduction of Kitsch

Chapter 4: The Search for a Language of the Historical Present

Chapter 5: The Quickened Moral Pulse

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index