Remembering Višegrad: Memories of Childhood and War in Saša Stanišić’s How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgement V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Literature, Interlingual and Cultural Translation, and Mnemonic Migration: Introduction 1
5. I Travelling Memories, Multidirectional Remembering, and Remediation
6. The Circulation of Memory: Semprun, Goethe, and Carola Neher, from Buchenwald to Stalinism and the Bosnian Genocide 29
7. Mnemonic Migration in Max Aub: Reframing the Spanish Civil War as a Transnational Phenomenon 41
8. Two Stops on the Itinerary of Anne Frank’s Diary 59
9. Literature as an Exploration of Past Worlds as Spaces of Possibility: Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel 79
10. II Multilingualism, Interlingual and Cultural Translation
11. On Prosthetic Memories and Phantom Limbs: Borderline Translation in Alen Mešković’s Ukulele Jam 101
12. Translating Memories of the Bosnian War: Translators as Memory Brokers of Violent Conflict 123
13. Multilingual Locals and Accented Reading as a Remediation of Shared Multi-Ethnic Memories: Ádám Bodor’s The Sinistra Zone and The Birds of Verhovina 143
14. The Transnational Family Novel as Memory Form: Mnemonic Migration in Marina Frenk and Sasha Marianna Salzmann 165
15. Remembering Višegrad: Memories of Childhood and War in Saša Stanišić’s How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone 185
16. III Circulation, Reception and the Protocols of Reading
17. The Puzzled Reader: Reception Strategies and Gaps of Indeterminacy in Bosnian Wartime Memory 207
18. “I Have Such Mixed Feelings”: Readers Respond to Memoirs by Political Relatives on Lubimyczytac.pl 225
19. On the Limits of Mnemonic Migration in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea 247
20. Narrating Historical Experience for Heterogeneous Readerships: Transnational Reading as Limited Participation in Aleksanda Hemon’s The Lazarus Project 265
21. Reading Modernism in the Contemporary: Translation, Setting, Mnemonic Migration 283
22. Contributors 301
23. Index 305