(PO)ETICS OF WAR WRITING AND REFUGEE CONTEXT IN THE NOVELS OF MARSELA ŠUNJIĆ Cover Image

(PO)ETIKA RATNOG PISMA I IZBJEGLIČKI KONTEKST U ROMANIMA MARSELE ŠUNJIĆ
(PO)ETICS OF WAR WRITING AND REFUGEE CONTEXT IN THE NOVELS OF MARSELA ŠUNJIĆ

Author(s): Naida Osmanbegović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Psychology, Military history, Bosnian Literature, Victimology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Migration Studies
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: war writing; poetics of testimony; rape; identity; refugees

Summary/Abstract: Two, and only novels, by Marsela Šunjić belong to two streams of war letters: war and post-war. The plot of the novel Laku noć, grade will follow three separate, delimited interpretations of truth, history and meaning. Entering text in the intimate drama documentary strategies, contributes to the total collapse of cultural values , urges apsurdity of ”our” and ’’their” narratives, and is faced with a symbolic Other, as an external decentralized starting point of decentralization. On the other hand, the second novel, Puno pozdrava s mjeseca, chronicles the lives of Bosnian refugees in America.

  • Issue Year: 3/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 360-367
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bosnian