Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature : The Politics of Time

This 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. Cover Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature: The Politics of Time Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Notes Chapter 1 The “Post-” of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures The Post-Yugoslav as Postmemory The Grammar of Parentheses: A Shift from “Yugoslav” to “Post-“ Toward a Parenthesized and Hyphenated “Post-”—A Typogrammar The Concept of the (Post)-/(Post)-as a Concept Notes Chapter 2 The Time of Dispossession1 From Conflict to Composition Compositional Revolution—An Anthropology of Rebirth and a “European Turkey” Immanent Revolution—from Missing Audience to Missing People Lost Immanence—An Anthropology of Rebirth Revisited Notes Chapter 3 The Time of Disappearing—From Memory to Becoming-(Post)-Yugoslav in Daša Drndić’s novel Leica Format Disappearing as Mobility and Change: The Fugue is a Mobile Section Unbinding Connections: Fugues as (Un)Witnessing Memoranda The Whole of Transitivity: Fugues and Change Disappearing as the Detached Line of Rupture The Arrhythmia of Disappearing: Asynchronized Moments A “Dis-association”: The Fugue as Line Disappearing as a Form of the Temporality of the Dis-jointed Line A Critical Gap: A Revolution in the Second-Hand Bookshop Notes Chapter 4 The Mono-chronological “Post” The Meanwhile According to Deleuze, Guattari, and Benedict Anderson Divergent Intersection: Antun Barac and the Constitutional Concept of Literature Synchronization of the Inside and the Outside: Pavle Popović and Yugoslav Literature as the Hidden Background of (Post)-Yugoslav Literature Knotting the Zones of Anonymous Traversals: Against an Ethno-Genetic Synchronization by Making Ethnic Fiction and Fictive Ethnicity Benedict Anderson’s Synchronization of Meanwhiles as Zones of Anonymous Traversals Danilo Kiš and Yugoslav Literature: Becoming-Orphan and Deleuze and Anderson on the Meanwhile Time (In)between the Nation: Forgetting as Grounding or Forgotten Grounds? Renan and (Un)founding Amnesia The Case against Anderson’s and Deleuze’s Concepts of Forgetting: De-synchronizing Memory and Forgetting Removing Punctuation: Against (Post)-Yugoslav Synchronization Notes Chapter 5 Remembering the Future Homo Duplex: Figurative and Fabulated Lives Palindromes: Repeating Differently History as Forgotten Crime: Assistants from Fairy Tales Potjeh’s Lesson on Dementia: Memory as Fabulation Giving Birth Twice: The Alliance of Parthenogenetic Progenies Notes Chapter 6 The Floating Middle Socialism and Neoliberal Transformation as the Dispossession from the Middle Plotting the Middle and Middling the Plot: The De-synchronized Simultaneity of the Beginning and the End In the Middle of the Open Notes Chapter 7 The Voice of the Mother’s Secret—The Secret of the Mother’s Voice Notes Bibliography Index About the Author Introduction: A Temporality of the Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Literature: A Critical Approach toward (Post)-Yugoslav Studies? -- The post of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures: An Outline of the Literary Study of the Temporalities of Parentheses and Hyphens -- The Time of Dispossession: The Conflict, Composition and Geophilosophy of Revolution in East Central Europe -- 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 -- 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 -- Remembering the Future: Narration and Fabulation in Dubravka Ugrešić's novels The Ministry of Pain and Baba Yaga Laid an Egg -- The Floating Middle: (Post)modern Time, Transition, and (Post)-Yugoslav Literature -- The Voice of the Mother's Secret: The Secret of the Mother's Voice: The Acoustics of Memory in David Albahari's Novel Bait "This book engages with the conceptual intersections of post-Yugoslav literature, focusing on analyses of postism and temporality"-- Provided by publisher