Figura drugog kao otvoreni projekat, na primeru albanskih autora iz Albanije i sa Kosova
The Figure of Other as an Open Project, as Exemplified by Albanian Writers from Albania and Kosovo

Author(s): Saša Ćirić
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Albanian Literature, International relations/trade, Translation Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: KPZ Beton
Keywords: political other; ethnic other; Kosovo poetry; Kosovo theatre; other as enemy; minority identities; Serbian-Albanian conflict;
Summary/Abstract: This article offers a comparative analysis of literary works of authors from Albania and Kosovo translated into Serbian in the period after 2000. It detects the notions of the figure of the other by making recourse to cultural and political references to the conflict situations found in these books. The article is divided into sections according to the literary genres of the analysed books (novels, short fiction, poetry, drama) and the region that the authors refer to (Albania and Kosovo). The crucial distinction between the authors from Albania and Kosovo is the domination of political other for the former in comparison to the ethnic other for the latter. The authors from Albania are preoccupied by the phenomenon of auto-isolationistic Albanian totalitarianism, while the authors from Kosovo are obsessed by the trauma of Serbian-Albanian war 1998-1999 war at Kosovo. Serbian-Albanian relations are presented as relations of collective distance and deep mistrust, with no examples of achieved interethnic friendship or love affairs. Another feature characteristics for the works of the authors analysed in this article is the resistance to the political authoritarianism and patriarchal conservatism in the form of a satire, as well as examples of religious tolerance and rejecting revanchism.

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