Summary
Stijn Vervaet: Holocaust, war and transnational memory. Testimony from Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature
This book examines the emergence and transformations of Holocaust memory in socialist Yugoslavia and in the post-Yugoslav regions. It considers literary texts about the Holocaust by Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav authors, placing their works in the historical and discursive context in which they were created, with an emphasis on their reception at the time. The book shows how writers belonging to different generations (survivor generation, intergenerational and second and third generation) use the Holocaust as a motive for understanding extreme violence, both local and global. It also contains comparative studies of the works of both internationally known and translated authors such as Danilo Kiš and David Albahari, as well as several forgotten authors, which this study rediscovers. Focusing on the works of Jewish and non-Jewish authors of three generations, the book sheds light on the ethical and aesthetic levels of the transgenerational transmission of Holocaust memory in the Yugoslav context.
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