„Чист од историја?“ Читање трауме у српској поезији деведесетих година
“Cleansed Of All History?” Reading Trauma in the Serbian Poetry of the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between collective trauma, narrative, and lyric poetry in the Serbian literature of the 1990s and early 2000s. Our research focused on the poetry and prose of the generation of modernist poets who entered the literary scene in the 1950s: Stevan Raičković, Miodrag Pavlović, Aleksandar Ristović, and Borislav Radović. We studied their response to the major social and political crises of the 1990s, particularly the wars for Yugoslav succession and the NATO bombing of SFRY. By exploring the representation of collective trauma in some of their best-known works, we sought to challenge, re-examine, and nuance some basic assumptions of literary trauma studies regarding the relationship between trauma, narrative, and the lyric.

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