Der post-kosmopolitische Roman-Diskurs und seine Bedeutung in Ex-Jugoslawien
The Post-Cosmopolitan Discourse in Novels and Its Significance in Former Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: The post-cosmopolitan discourse of European literature accentuates the spirit of open identity, discovering ‘the Other’, initiating a dialogue with him and perceiving one’s own as well as the other’s values, traumas and foreignness. In that respect the modern Serbian resp. Croatian prose remains in accordance with today’s European tendencies – i.e. the complex Yugoslavian identity and its charged conception render modern Serbian and Croatian prose European. Not denying nationality, but presenting it in a regional context, it opens up spaces in world literature. However, the political doctrine of closed national identities looms large. Although we actually had left this stage behind some decades ago, the question remains whether we are returning to the same old times again today.

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