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Book SynopsisExiles cross borders, become non-mainstream individuals and break through barriers of thought and experience. Forced or chosen detachment can lead to originality of vision, awareness of simultaneous dimensions – in short a writing that challenges boundaries of genre, monolingualism and national literatures. The writers of the Balkan (Slavic) diaspora offer narratives of critical reflection, strange fusions and unions, representative of the new cultural identities of contemporary Europe. This volume presents an interesting combination of original writer’s essays (by Tzveta Sofronieva, Goran Stefanovski, Dubravka Ugresic) and academic discussions on the function of such narratives, seeking answers to a number of academic questions, related to the construction of the Self in processes of cultural translation/transmission.
Trade Review”Stimulating and informed, the eleven essays in this volume chart the beginnings of what could be a long discussion of literature that bears South East European origins.” in: Slavic and East European Journal 55.4 (Winter 2011)
Table of ContentsElka Agoston-Nikolova: Introduction: Shoreless Bridges The Voice of the Writers Goran Stefanovski: Chinese Whispers Tzveta Sofronieva: Un-lost in Translation Dubravka Ugrešić: Telemachus’s Dream Academic Discussion Raymond Detrez: The Temptation of National Identity: The Case of Grigor Părličev Nikolaj Aretov: Bulgarian Émigrés and Their Literature: A Gaze from Home Penka Angelova: The Other Road. On the Bulgarian Topos in the Work of Three Writers Awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize Chantal Wright: The Water under the Bridge: Tzveta Sofronieva’s Der alte Mann, das Meer, die Frau Goce Smilevski: Goran Stefanovski – A Playwright in the Tower of Babel Maja Bojadžievska: Fragments Between Desire and Nostalgia: A Macedonian Case Ellen Elias-Bursać: Translating Dubravka Ugrešić and David Albahari Dimitar Kambourov: Exile or Exodus: D. Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and Iliya Troyanov’s The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner Contributors
