1st Edition
Haunted Serbia Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination
By David Norris
Copyright 2016
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of the past, re-remembering the cruelty of the twentieth century, reinterpreting the heroic role of the Partisans and the extraordinary measures taken to... Read more
1 Politics of Literature in Socialist Yugoslavia 2 Historical Fiction, Haunted Fiction 3 Restless Ghosts 4 Uncanny Histories 5 In the Shadow of War 6 Making War Real 7 NATO’s Phantoms
Biography
David A. Norris is Associate Professor in Serbian and Croatian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
'In this well-informed, logically structured study, David A. Norris offers a lucid and original interpretation of important and influential Serbian narrative fiction between the demise of Tito in 1980 and the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999.'
Ralph Bogert, University of Toronto, Slavic Review
