KNJIŽEVNA REPUBLIKA JUGOSLAVIJA OD 1989. DO 2022.
The Literary Republic of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 2022

Author(s): Boris Postnikov
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Croatian Literature, Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Durieux
Keywords: post-Yugoslav literature; Pierre Bourdieu; sociolgy of literature; Boris Postnikov;
Summary/Abstract: The book examines the analytical construction of the post-Yugoslav literary field, understanding it as a structured socio-literary space that provides a framework for interpreting the literature of ex-Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav authors beyond the perspective of national literature as the dominant literary-historical paradigm. In this regard, it relies on the reconstruction of various conceptions of a common Yugoslav literature in the so-called First and Second Yugoslavia, as well as on insights from the far-reaching shift from the study of national to the study of world literature at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.Its methodological foundation is found in Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of literature, which is first subjected to critical analysis. The post-Yugoslav literary field is then conceptualized in relation to its lines of continuity and points of discontinuity with the Yugoslav literary field, exploring the rearticulation of autonomous authorial positioning during the transition from socialism to capitalism.Following Svetozar Petrović’s idea of the creative and individual construction of a literary-historical vision and combining it with Bourdieu’s concept of the state of the field as the fundamental historiographical-periodization mechanism, The Literary Republic of Yugoslavia proposes a decadal division of post-Yugoslav literature into three periods: the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s, each marked by its own specific logics. Within this developed framework, literary texts and socio-literary phenomena are then approached beyond the national perspective and within a broader social context.

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