The Role of Memory in Dubravka Ugreshich’s Ministry of Pain Cover Image

Ролята на паметта в „Министерство на болката“ на Дубравка Угрешич
The Role of Memory in Dubravka Ugreshich’s Ministry of Pain

Author(s): Denitsa Zarkova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Serbian Literature, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: memory; former Yugoslavia; trauma; Dubravka Ugrešić; The Ministry of Pain

Summary/Abstract: This article examines memory and its role in the life of emigrants living in Amsterdam who arrived there after the beginning of the Yugoslav War. The characters’ personal trauma as a result of the loss of collective and, to some extent, of individual memory is foregrounded together with the characters’ attempt to build coping mechanisms to deal with their current situation.

  • Issue Year: 4/2018
  • Issue No: 2 (8)
  • Page Range: 129-141
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bulgarian