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Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time
Towards the Temporal Turn in the Critical Study of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures
Series: - Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, Volume: 65
- Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics Online, Volume: 65
In this collection of essays, authors propose a temporal shift in (post-)Yugoslav studies. By taking into account select examples from literature, art, and culture, the volume questions a possibility of explaining the temporal structure underlying the theoretical and analytical concepts employed in understanding (post-)Yugoslav literature(s) and culture(s). Analyses undertaken in the essays showcase that the (post-)Yugoslav literary, artistic, and cultural practices do not only attempt to portray the demise of the state and the succeeding war between its former republics. Instead, the authors underscore that the critical (post-)Yugoslav studies task is to evince and critically reflect on and engage with the processes before and after the dissolution to capture the collapse itself.
Aleksandar MijatoviÄ, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory and History at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka. He has recently authored the book Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature: The Politics of Time (2020).
Brian Willems, Ph.D., European Graduate School, is Associate Professor of Literature and Film at the University of Split. His most recent books are Zug efekt (2021) and Speculative Realism and Science Fiction (2017).
Brian Willems, Ph.D., European Graduate School, is Associate Professor of Literature and Film at the University of Split. His most recent books are Zug efekt (2021) and Speculative Realism and Science Fiction (2017).
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âAleksandar MijatoviÄ and Brian Willems
1 Past Fragments, Future Change: Dubravka UgreÅ¡iÄ, Vladan Desnica, Sanja IvekoviÄ, and Dalibor Martinis
âBrian Willems
2 âThe Historical Moment before Our Eyesâ: On Producing Post-Yugoslav Literature
âTijana MatijeviÄ
3 Whose (Neo-)Avant-Garde? The Poetry of Josip Sever, Yugoslav Modernity, and the Problem of Mononational Literary History
âLujo Parežanin
âBoris Postnikov
5 Post-Yugoslav Dystopian Dilemmas and Writing the History of the Future: Alternative Version or Parodic Subversion?
âMiranda Levanat-PeriÄiÄ
6 Kant Has Some Relevance Here: On a Fictional Theory of Quentin Meillassoux and the Theoretical Fiction of Luka Bekavac
âAnte JeriÄ
7 The Narrative Out of Time: The Nonhuman World of Luka Bekavacâs Fiction
âMatija JelaÄa and Anera Ryznar
8 Re-reading/Writing Yugoslav Pasts and Presents in Post-Yugoslav Literature: Between (Yugo-)Nostalgia and âLateral Networksâ
âMirko MilivojeviÄ
9 Spaces of Memory in Dragan VelikiÄâs Novel Investigator
âDanijela Marot KiÅ¡
10 In Search of Home Time
âKujtim Rrahmani
11 Cultural Values and the Circularity of âTransitionâ in Croatia: Post-war Literature and Film
âSaÅ¡a StaniÄ and Marina Biti
12 Writing against the Code and Fitting in with the Code: Reading Dubravka UgreÅ¡iÄ in the Context of the International Literary Field
âIva Kosmos
13 Narrations of Lost and Found: The Twists and Turns of the Friendship Discourse in the (Post)Yugoslav Environment
âZala PavÅ¡iÄ
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âAleksandar MijatoviÄ and Brian Willems
Part 1: The Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Time
Section 1: Time Unbound: De-synchronized Temporalities of Modernity, the (Neo)-Avant-Garde, Post-modernity, and the Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Literature
1 Past Fragments, Future Change: Dubravka UgreÅ¡iÄ, Vladan Desnica, Sanja IvekoviÄ, and Dalibor Martinis
âBrian Willems
2 âThe Historical Moment before Our Eyesâ: On Producing Post-Yugoslav Literature
âTijana MatijeviÄ
3 Whose (Neo-)Avant-Garde? The Poetry of Josip Sever, Yugoslav Modernity, and the Problem of Mononational Literary History
âLujo Parežanin
Section 2: From the Time That Belongs to No-One to Temporalities of Non-belonging
4 The End of the World as We Know It? Anti-utopia in Post-Yugoslav LiteratureâBoris Postnikov
5 Post-Yugoslav Dystopian Dilemmas and Writing the History of the Future: Alternative Version or Parodic Subversion?
âMiranda Levanat-PeriÄiÄ
6 Kant Has Some Relevance Here: On a Fictional Theory of Quentin Meillassoux and the Theoretical Fiction of Luka Bekavac
âAnte JeriÄ
7 The Narrative Out of Time: The Nonhuman World of Luka Bekavacâs Fiction
âMatija JelaÄa and Anera Ryznar
Part 2: Application(s) of/to (Post)-Yugoslav Time
Section 1: Unhinging Memory and Space: Remembering (Post)-Yugoslav Time
8 Re-reading/Writing Yugoslav Pasts and Presents in Post-Yugoslav Literature: Between (Yugo-)Nostalgia and âLateral Networksâ
âMirko MilivojeviÄ
9 Spaces of Memory in Dragan VelikiÄâs Novel Investigator
âDanijela Marot KiÅ¡
10 In Search of Home Time
âKujtim Rrahmani
Section 2: De-composing Broken Bonds: The Culture of Non-relational Relation
11 Cultural Values and the Circularity of âTransitionâ in Croatia: Post-war Literature and Film
âSaÅ¡a StaniÄ and Marina Biti
12 Writing against the Code and Fitting in with the Code: Reading Dubravka UgreÅ¡iÄ in the Context of the International Literary Field
âIva Kosmos
13 Narrations of Lost and Found: The Twists and Turns of the Friendship Discourse in the (Post)Yugoslav Environment
âZala PavÅ¡iÄ
Index
Anyone concerned with the (post-)Yugoslav literature and culture, ranging from the academic specialists, educated non-specialists to college departments and libraries.