Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature

Aleksandar Mijatović is associate professor in the department of Croatian language and literature at the University of Rijeka.

Introduction: 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