TY - CHAP
T1 - Open Wounds, the Phenomenology of Exile and the Management of Pain: Dubravka Ugresic’s The Ministry of Pain
AU - Velickovic, Vedrana
PY - 2009/7/1
Y1 - 2009/7/1
N2 - How do we remember the country, the place we have left, to which it is difficult, or often impossible to return, or which no longer exists? Do we want to remember it at all? Is remembering for some too painful? How do we remember the life, the ‘home’ we have been forced to leave? Such questions of loss, of nostalgia and memory, of alienation and dislocation, have been imaginatively explored within a long tradition of exile literature - a heterogeneous body of work encompassing a multiplicity of horizons and histories. In the East European context, this thematic concern has been resonating in literatures from the totalitarian periods, in the émigré and dissident literature, and most recently, in the literatures of conflict, especially those affected by the war in Former Yugoslavia.
AB - How do we remember the country, the place we have left, to which it is difficult, or often impossible to return, or which no longer exists? Do we want to remember it at all? Is remembering for some too painful? How do we remember the life, the ‘home’ we have been forced to leave? Such questions of loss, of nostalgia and memory, of alienation and dislocation, have been imaginatively explored within a long tradition of exile literature - a heterogeneous body of work encompassing a multiplicity of horizons and histories. In the East European context, this thematic concern has been resonating in literatures from the totalitarian periods, in the émigré and dissident literature, and most recently, in the literatures of conflict, especially those affected by the war in Former Yugoslavia.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 1433104903
T3 - Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature
SP - 139
EP - 154
BT - Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe
A2 - Gutthy, Agnieszka
PB - Peter Lang
CY - New York
ER -