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Book SynopsisThis book examines the theoretical devices of Yugoslav' and post-Yugoslav' literature. The author analyzes selected literary examples from the region through the lens of a contemporary post-Deleuzean philosophy of time, extricating discussions of post-ism from traditional chronological framing.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Temporality of the Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Literature: A Critical Approach toward (Post)-Yugoslav Studies?
Chapter1: The ‘Post-’ of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures: An Outline of the Literary Study of the Temporalities of Parentheses and Hyphens
Chapter 2: The Time of Dispossession: The Conflict, Composition and Geophilosophy of Revolution in East Central Europe
Chapter 3: The Time of Disappearing—From Memory to Becoming-(Post)-Yugoslav in Daša Drndić’s novel Leica Format: Reading the Dissolution of (Post)-Yugoslav Time through Bergson’s, Benjamin’s, and Deleuze’s Concepts of Temporality
Chapter 4: The Mono-chronological ‘Post’: The Synchronization of the Meanwhiles of Nations in Antun Barac’s and Pavle Popović’s Histories of Yugoslav Literature and Relation to the Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Literature
Chapter 5: Remembering the Future: Narration and Fabulation in Dubravka Ugrešić’s novels The Ministry of Pain and Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
Chapter 6: The Floating Middle: (Post)modern Time, Transition, and (Post)-Yugoslav Literature
Chapter 7: The Voice of the Mother’s Secret—The Secret of the Mother’s Voice: The Acoustics of Memory in David Albahari's Novel Bait
