Radmila Gorup - After Yugoslavia

Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe

Edited by Norman Naimark and Larry Wolff

After Yugoslavia

The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land

Edited by Radmila Gorup

Stanford University Press
Stanford, California

Stanford University Press

Stanford, California

2013 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

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The publication of this book was made possible, in part, from the Harriman Institute.

An earlier version of Gordana P. Crnkovis chapter, Vibrant Commonalities and the Yugoslav Legacy: A Few Remarks (), appeared in her book Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film: Fires, Foundations, Flourishes (London and New York: Continuum, 2012), 3139. It is reprinted here with the permission of the publisher.

An earlier version of Tomislav Z. Longinovis essay, Post-Yugoslav Emergence and the Creation of Difference (), then entitled Serbo-Croatian: Translating the Non-identical Twins, was first published in Translation and Opposition, ed. Dimitris Asimakoulas and Margaret Rogers (Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters, 2011), 28395. It is reprinted here with the permission of the publisher.

An earlier version of Dubravka Ugreis essay, The Spirit of the Kakanian Province (), appeared in her book Karaoke Culture (Rochester, NY: Open Letter Books, 2011), 2011 by Dubravka Ugrei. It is reprinted here with the permission of the publisher.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

After Yugoslavia : the cultural spaces of a vanished land / edited by Radmila Gorup.

pages cm.--(Stanford studies on Central and Eastern Europe)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8047-8402-3 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Former Yugoslav republics--Social life and customs. 2. Yugoslavia--Social life and customs. I. Gorup, Radmila Jovanovic, editor of compilation. II. Series: Stanford studies on Central and Eastern Europe.

DR1317.A34 2013

949.703--dc23

2013005094

ISBN 978-0-8047-8734-5 (electronic)

Typeset by Bruce Lundquist in 11/13.5 Adobe Garamond

For Everett, Hudson, and Lucas

Contents

Marijeta Boovi

Maria Todorova

Vesna Goldsworthy

Dejan Djoki

Zoran Milutinovi

Vladimir Zori

Mitja Velikonja

Gordana P. Crnkovi

Marijeta Boovi

Tomislav Z. Longinovi

Ranko Bugarski

Milorad Pupovac

Andrew Horton

Meta Mazaj

Davor Beganovi

Andrea Zlatar-Violi

Tatjana Rosi

Alojzija Zupan Sosi

Venko Andonovski

Dubravka Ugrei

Contributors

Radmila Gorup is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. Her fields of interest are theoretical linguistics, cultural history, and languages of the Balkans, Yugoslav literatures and sociolinguistics. She has authored one book and edited and coedited five volumes, most recently The Slave Girl and Other Stories About Women by Ivo Andri (2009). Gorup was a guest editor for the summer 2000 issue of Review of Contemporary Fiction, dedicated to Milorad Pavi.

Venko Andonovski is a best-selling novelist, short story writer, playwright, and literary critic. He is currently Professor of Macedonian and Croatian literatures, narratology and semiotics at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje (Macedonia). Andonovski has written three novels, two collections of short stories, twelve plays and six books of literary theory and cultural studies, and received the award Balkanika for his novel Papokat na svetot (2001). His works have been translated into nine languages.

Davor Beganovi is Assistant Professor of South Slavic Literatures at the University of Vienna. His main research interests are contemporary literature, theory of memory in relation to cultural studies, and theory of literature. Beganovis monographs include Pamenje trauma: Apokaliptina proza Danila Kia (2007), Poetika melankonije (2009), Pamenje trauma (2007). He coedited Unutarnji prijevodi (with Enver Kazaz, 2011) and Krieg Sichten (with Peter Braun, 2007).

Marijeta Boovi is Assistant Professor in Russian and Eurasian Studies at Colgate University. She recently completed work on a monograph based on her dissertation, From Onegin to Ada: Nabokovs Canon and the Texture of Time. Her recent publications include articles on Nabokovs The Origin of Laura, and the traces of English-language modernism in Ivan Goncharovs Oblomov.

Ranko Bugarski is Professor of English and General Linguistics at the University of Belgrade (Emeritus). He has held numerous scholarships and guest lectureships at universities throughout Europe, the United States and Australia. Among Bugarskis many publications are Language Planning in Yugoslavia (1992) and Language in the Former Yugoslav Lands (2004), both coedited with Celia Hawkesworth. He is past President of Societas Linguistica Europaea, member of Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europea (Salzburg), and a Coucil of Europe expert on minority languages (Strasbourg).

Gordana P. Crnkovi is Associate Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington (Seattle), where she is also a member of the Program in Theory and Criticism and Cinema Studies. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Crnkovi is the author of Imagined Dialogues: Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature (2000), Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film: Fires, Foundations, Flourishes (2012), and coeditor of Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof! The American Impact on European Popular Culture Since 1945 (with Sabrina P. Ramet, 2003) and of In Contrast: Croatian Film Today (with Aida Vidan, 2012).

Dejan Djoki is Reader in Modern and Contemporary History and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Balkans at Goldsmiths, University of London. He works on modern Balkan history, particularly the political, social and cultural history of former Yugoslavia. Djokis books include Nikola Pai and Ante Trumbi: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (2010) and Elusive Compromise: A History of Interwar Yugoslavia (2007). He is coeditor of New Perspectives on Yugoslavia: Key Issues and Controversies (2011).

Vesna Goldsworthy is a British-based Serbian writer, broadcaster, and academic. She is the author of several widely translated books, including Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination (1998), an influential study of the Balkans in literature and film. Her best-selling memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries (2005), was serialized in the Times and on BBC radio, and had fourteen editions in German alone. Her most recent work, a Crashaw Prizewinning poetry collection, The Angel of Salonika, was one of the Timess Best Poetry Books in 2011. A former BBC journalist, Goldsworthy continues to produce programs for a range of broadcasters. She currently holds the post of Professor in English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University in London.