A Public Language of Grief: Art, Poetry, and Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Bosnia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Introduction: After Yugoslavia – memory on the ruins of history 1
5. Part 1: Entangled Legacies of Extreme Violence: Traumatic Memories in the Aftermath of the Yugoslav Successor Wars
6. “Read and Remember”: Ozren Kebo’s Sarajevo for Beginners as Ironic Guidebook and Narrative Memorial 23
7. Remembering Nowhere: The Homeland-on-the-Move in the Exile Writing of Saša Stanišić and Ismet Prcic 45
8. The Art and Craft of Memory: Re-Memorialization Practices in Post-Socialist Croatia 65
9. The Evidence of Srebrenica: Oliver Frljić’s Theater Court in Cowardice 83
10. Intersecting Memories in Post-Yugoslav Fiction: The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s through the Lens of the Holocaust 99
11. Part 2: Reclaiming the Past: Artistic and Literary Representations of Socialist Yugoslavia
12. What Remains of Mostar?: Archive and Witness in Marsela Sunjić’s Goodnight, City 129
13. Post-Socialism Remembers the Revolution: The Comedy of It 149
14. Yugoslavia in Post-Yugoslav Artistic Practices: Or, Art as … 169
15. Part 3: Reconfiguring the Post-Yugoslav Present: Towards New Forms of Community and Identity
16. Garbage Heap, Storehouse, Encyclopedia: Metaphors for a Post-Yugoslav Cultural Memory 193
17. Small Town as the Scene of a Memory Encounter: Portraits and Commemorations of Radomir Konstantinović 209
18. Recollecting an Alternative Modernity: Aleksandar Zograf’s Flea Market Archaeologies 237
19. A Public Language of Grief: Art, Poetry, and Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Bosnia 259
20. Digital Afterlife: Ex-Yugoslav Pop Culture Icons and Social Media 279
21. Notes on Contributors 301
22. List of Illustrations 307
23. Index of Names 311