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References (1)
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Stephenie Young (2010)
Yugonostalgia and the Post-National Narrative
- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1930-6253
- eISSN
- 2375-1606
- DOI
- 10.1163/23751606-01401005
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The paper deals with the ways in which Dubravka Ugrešić treats Yugoslav/Croatian literature, literary genres, conventions and style in her novel The Ministry of Pain. From the perspective of an exiled professor of literature, Tanja Lucić, and her exiled students living in the Netherlands, Yugoslav literature is perceived and valued in the light of several non-literary factors. Tanja Lucić finds it absurd to teach their former country’s literature (or literatures) as if the notion of nation, to which they no longer seem to relate, or the future war and trauma are always already inscribed in it. This oppositional reading and its reflection in the very design of the novel The Ministry of Pain will be discussed in this paper, in an effort to outline Ugrešić’s post-national poetics.
Journal
Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research – Brill
Published: Jul 31, 2018