Ugrešić, Hemon i paradoksi književnog kosmopolitizma: ili kako otvoriti postjugoslavenske književnosti ka svijetu u eri globalizacije
Ugrešić, Hemon, and the Paradoxes of Literary Cosmopolitanism: or how to “world” (post-) Yugoslav Literature in the Age of Globalization

Summary/Abstract: Compared to Yugoslav culture, post-Yugoslav literature is perceived as utterly provincial by many critics. Using the example of work by Dubravka Ugrešić and Aleksandar Hemon, this paper explores how certain works of post-Yugoslav literature can nevertheless be read as “cosmopolitan literature.” I argue that both authors contribute to the “worlding” of (post-)Yugoslav literature(s) in a double sense. Dealing with issues of displacement and trauma, their work not only puts life stories from the former Yugoslavia on the map of the world but also deconstructs Western stereotypes about the region. Through a web of intertextual references, their work includes the literary and cultural legacy of the former Yugoslavia in the imaginary space of world literature, thus reclaiming the common Yugoslav cultural space.

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