Naslov
The Post-Yugoslav “America”: Re-Visiting the United States After the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Autori
Kolanović, Maša

Izvornik
Working papers in American studies (1849-6180) 2 (2016); 68-80

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

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

Sažetak
After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the U.S.A. was one of the first and most common destinations for post-Yugoslav dissidents who were critical of the rise of nationalism in the former Yugoslav republics. Prominent post-Yugoslav authors Dubravka Ugrešić and Slavenka Drakulić wrote their first collections of essays (How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, 1992 ; Američki fikcionar, 1993) reflecting on turbulent political, cultural and social changes after the breakup of Yugoslavia in which America is very often the place of the subject’s distanced position as well as a reference in numerous cultural and political comparisons of capitalism and (post) socialist Europe. The paper examines the role of “America” in their critical views on the breakup of Yugoslavia, looks at how America was shaped as a cultural metaphor and re-viewed as a real environment, and finally how Yugoslav socialist legacy is articulated in their perspective on the United States.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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