Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 3835147
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315559810
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781909662650
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 190-page monograph studies Serbian war literature of the last two decades of the twentieth century, using a wide-ranging corpus of narrative fiction. It establishes the shifting cultural policies across political régimes since 1945, to foreground the idea of haunting – rather than the common matrix of nationalism – and explores literary responses to otherwise different political moments. It traces the different functions of ghosts, spectres and the uncanny, first, in 1980s’ historical fiction, as reminders of the traumas of communism, and secondly, in 1990s’ writing, as release from the burdens of history following the Wars of Yugoslav Succession.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Seven pages of Chapter 3 were previously published as ‘Jovan Radulovics Golubnjaca (Dove Hole): Analysis and Context of the Stories and the Play Which Was Banned in Yugoslavia (1980– 1984)’, Slavonic and East European Review, 90 (2012), 201– 228. Nine pages of Chapter 6 incorporate a previously published version of ‘Writing about War: Making Sense of the Absurd in Mileta Prodanović’s Novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, You Monster, to my Soft Music)’, Modern Language Review, 108 (2013), 597– 618. Both articles submitted to REF2014. Overlap is 16 pages of 190 in the monograph.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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