Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time Towards the Temporal Turn in the Critical Study of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 65)

In Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time: Towards the Temporal Turn in the Critical Study of (Post-)Yugoslav Literatures, authors outline a concept of (post)-Yugoslav temporality and scrutinize its analytical value in the memory and cultural studies. Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 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 Chapter 1. Past Fragments, Future Change: Dubravka Ugrešic, Vladan Desnica, Sanja Ivekovic, and Dalibor Martinis Chapter 2. The ``Historical Moment before Our Eyes'': On Producing Post-Yugoslav Literature Chapter 3. Whose (Neo-)Avant-Garde? The Poetry of Josip Sever, Yugoslav Modernity, and the Problem of Mononational Literary History Section 2: From the Time That Belongs to No-One to Temporalities of Non-belonging Chapter 4. The End of the World as We Know It? Anti-utopia in Post-Yugoslav Literature Chapter 5. Post-Yugoslav Dystopian Dilemmas and Writing the History of the Future: Alternative Version or Parodic Subversion? Chapter 6. Kant Has Some Relevance Here: On a Fictional Theory of Quentin Meillassoux and the Theoretical Fiction of Luka Bekavac Chapter 7. The Narrative Out of Time: The Nonhuman World of Luka Bekavac's Fiction Part 2: Application(s) of/to (Post-)Yugoslav Time Section 1: Unhinging Memory and Space: Remembering (Post-)Yugoslav Time Chapter 8. Re-reading/Writing Yugoslav Pasts and Presents in Post-Yugoslav Literature: Between (Yugo-)Nostalgia and ``Lateral Networks'' Chapter 9. Spaces of Memory in Dragan Velikic's Novel Investigator Chapter 10. In Search of Home Time Section 2: De-composing Broken Bonds: The Culture of Non-relational Relation Chapter 11. Transition, Trauma, and Culture in Croatia (Notes on Post-war Literature and Film) Chapter 12. Writing against the Code and Fitting in with the Code: Reading Dubravka Ugrešic in the Context of the International Literary Field Chapter 13. Narrations of Lost and Found: The Twists and Turns of the Friendship Discourse in the (Post-)Yugoslav Environment Index "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."-- Provided by publisher