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Writing Postcommunism

Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature (PMEL)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction: Exercises in Polysemy

    • David Williams
    Pages 1-32
  3. ‘The Citizen of a Ruin’

    • David Williams
    Pages 33-69
  4. Aporias, Impasses and Ostalgia

    • David Williams
    Pages 99-126
  5. Trümmerliteratur Redux

    • David Williams
    Pages 127-164
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 176-231

About this book

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.

About the author

David Williams is the translator of Dubravka Ugreši?'s Karaoke Culture (2011) and Miljenko Jergovi?'s Mama Leone (2012). He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, has taught at the Universities of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Belgrade and Novi Sad, Serbia; and Auckland, New Zealand, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Leipzig and Konstanz, Germany.

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