Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory: Testimony from Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literature

ISBN-13: 9781472478757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 176 str.

Stijn Vervaet

Opis

Building upon recent developments in memory studies and transnational memory, this book offers a comparative analysis of Yugoslav Holocaust memory and its intersections with other forms of extreme violence, such as the suffering of the non-Jewish South-Slav population during World War II, the victims of Stalinist terror, and the victims of ethnic cleansing in the Yugoslav wars. Drawing on a variety of sources, including (post-)Yugoslav Holocaust fiction, the author offers novel theoretical concepts that conceive of (traumatic) memory as non-competitive and foreground its capability to transcend the boundaries of the nation.

Spis treści

List of Figures  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Part I The Generation of Survivors  1. Holocaust Testimony in Socialist Yugoslavia  2. Staging the Holocaust in the Land of Brotherhood and Unity: Đorđe Lebović’s Holocaust Dramas  3. Ilija Jakovljević’s Poetry of Testimony  Part II The 1.5 Generation  4. Writing the Subject after the Holocaust: Konstantinović’s Ahasver, or Treatise about a Beer Bottle  5. The Gulag and The Holocaust in Danilo Kiš’s A Tomb for Boris Davidovich  Part III The Second and Third Generations  6. Entangled Histories: Family Memories and the Representation of the Holocaust in the Work of David Albahari  7. Berlin Encounters: The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s through the Lens of the Holocaust  8. Between Local and Global Politics of Memory: Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Serbian Prose Fiction and Film  Concluding Remarks  Index

O autorze

Stijn Vervaet is an Associate Professor in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Balkan Studies in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway.