ДОМОТ, БЕЗДОМНОСТА И ИДЕНТИТЕТОТ ВО РОМАНИТЕ МУЗЕЈ НА БЕЗУСЛОВНОТО ПРЕДАВАЊЕ И МИНИСТЕРСТВО НА БОЛКАТА ОД ДУБРАВКА УГРЕШИЌ
HOME, HOMELESSNESS AND IDENTITY IN THE NOVELS THE MUSEUM OF UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER AND MINISTRY OF PAIN BY DUBRAVKA UGRESHIKJ

Summary/Abstract: Edward Said in Reflections on Exile states that exilants have a simultaneous awareness of at least two cultures, two contexts, two homes. He also suggests that the displacement or relocation brings a sense of homelessness and a ruptured identity. Despite having that simultaneous awareness of two cultures, the characters from the novels The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugreshikj, who are exilants, refuges, immigrants, expatriates, instead of feeling they have two homes, they feel they have none. This text examines the attempts of the narrators of the both novels to recreate their lives as a whole, by narrating their lives in fragments, and thus to overcome their feeling of discontinuity in their lives, and their sense of homelessness.

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