Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Aleksandar Mijatović and Brian Willems

Part 1: The Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Time

Section 1: Time Unbound: De-synchronized Temporalities of Modernity, the (Neo)-Avant-Garde, Post-modernity, and the Concept of (Post)-Yugoslav Literature

1 Past Fragments, Future Change: Dubravka Ugrešić, Vladan Desnica, Sanja Iveković, and Dalibor Martinis

 Brian Willems

2 “The Historical Moment before Our Eyes”: On Producing Post-Yugoslav Literature

 Tijana Matijević

3 Whose (Neo-)Avant-Garde? The Poetry of Josip Sever, Yugoslav Modernity, and the Problem of Mononational Literary History

 Lujo Parežanin


Section 2: From the Time That Belongs to No-One to Temporalities of Non-belonging

4 The End of the World as We Know It? Anti-utopia in Post-Yugoslav Literature

 Boris Postnikov

5 Post-Yugoslav Dystopian Dilemmas and Writing the History of the Future: Alternative Version or Parodic Subversion?

 Miranda Levanat-Peričić

6 Kant Has Some Relevance Here: On a Fictional Theory of Quentin Meillassoux and the Theoretical Fiction of Luka Bekavac

 Ante Jerić

7 The Narrative Out of Time: The Nonhuman World of Luka Bekavac’s Fiction

 Matija Jelača and Anera Ryznar

Part 2: Application(s) of/to (Post)-Yugoslav Time

Section 1: Unhinging Memory and Space: Remembering (Post)-Yugoslav Time

8 Re-reading/Writing Yugoslav Pasts and Presents in Post-Yugoslav Literature: Between (Yugo-)Nostalgia and “Lateral Networks”

 Mirko Milivojević

9 Spaces of Memory in Dragan Velikić’s Novel Investigator

 Danijela Marot Kiš

10 In Search of Home Time

 Kujtim Rrahmani

Section 2: De-composing Broken Bonds: The Culture of Non-relational Relation

11 Cultural Values and the Circularity of ‘Transition’ in Croatia: Post-war Literature and Film

 Saša Stanić and Marina Biti

12 Writing against the Code and Fitting in with the Code: Reading Dubravka Ugrešić in the Context of the International Literary Field

 Iva Kosmos

13 Narrations of Lost and Found: The Twists and Turns of the Friendship Discourse in the (Post)Yugoslav Environment

 Zala Pavšič



Index

About the Author

Aleksandar Mijatović, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory and History at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka. He has recently authored the book Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature: The Politics of Time (2020).


Brian Willems, Ph.D., European Graduate School, is Associate Professor of Literature and Film at the University of Split. His most recent books are Zug efekt (2021) and Speculative Realism and Science Fiction (2017).