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Author Obradović, Dragana, author.

Title Writing the Yugoslav wars : literature, postmodernism, and the ethics of representation / Dragana Obradović
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages)
Series BiblioLabs, LLC. Books
Contents War, postmodernism, and literary immanence -- The spectacle of the siege -- The phantasmagoria and seduction of Kitsch -- The search for a language of the historical present -- The quickened moral pulse
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index
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Subject Yugoslav literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Literature and the war
War and literature -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century
Postmodernism -- Yugoslavia
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Eastern.
Postmodernism
War and literature
Yugoslav literature
Yugoslavia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442629554
144262955X
9781487514693
1487514697
9781442629561
1442629568