Naslov
Postyugoslav ''America'': Re-visiting the USA after the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Autori
Kolanović, Maša

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
Quarter of a Century after the Fall of the Berlin Wall – Perspectives and Directions in Croatian and Regional American Studies

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 03.10.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
United States of America; disintegration of Yugoslavia; literature

Sažetak
After the breakup of Yugoslavia, United States of America were one of the first and most common destinations for post-Yugoslav opponents to the newly designed nation states. Two most prominent post-Yugoslav authors, Dubravka Ugrešić and Slavenka Drakulić wrote their first collections of essays (Američki fikcionar, 1993 ; How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, 1992) reflecting turbulent political, cultural and social changes after the break-up of Yugoslavia in which America is the place of subject distanced position in their dissident view but also a unavoidable place of cultural, political comparisons with post-Yugoslav space. The paper examines the role of America in their critical views on the breakup of Yugoslavia, how America was being shaped as a cultural metaphor and re-viewed as a real environment, how socialist legacy is articulated in their perspective and how the disintegration of Yugoslavia shaped their post-socialist perspective on the United States.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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