АУТОБИОГРАФСКО У ОПУСУ СТИВА И НАЂЕ ТЕШИЋ
Autobiographical in the Works of Steve and Nadja Tesich

Summary/Abstract: Autobiographical elements are an important constituent part of Steve and Nađa Tešić’s work. Steve Tešić’s movies Four Friends and Breaking Away are overtly autobiographical and contemporneous with the period of his American dreaming. He introduced elements of autobiography in some of his novels and plays like Summer Crossing, The Cerpenters, Divison Street and Karoo, while his metaphysical play On the Open Road may be considered autobiographical in terms of the author’s apocalyptic vision involving the fate of Yugoslavia, the future of mankind, and the position of the artist within it. Nađa Tešić’s four novels are all autobiographical, either implicitly or, in the case of her memoir To Die in Chicago, explicitly. The other three novels dealt with are The Shadow Partisan, Native Land and Far from Vietnam. A contribution to the study of the role of memory in literature, they disclose both conscious and unconscious motivation behind the construction of leading female characters. Novels and plays by Nađa and Steve Tešić contain autobiographical ingredients which provide a link between their Serbian origin and their American lives, and can be classified into the reputable category of urban narratives centered on Chigaco and New York.

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