Search Results for US post-Yugoslav novel

... distances her from fixed concepts of identity. The two (semi-)autobiographical novels by Tesich and Radojčić depict migrant women’s negotiations with gender in-between US and (post-)Yugoslav spaces. Whereas Tesich fictionalizes a Yugoslav migrant’s uneasy relationship with transnational feminism...

... Migrants’ Agency in US Post-Yugoslav Novels,” Tatjana Bijelić examines representations of North American women migrants in the work of two understudied post-Yugoslav writers. She analyzes how Nadja Tesich’s novel Native Land (1998) and Natasha Radojčić’s You Don’t Have to Live Here (2005) fictionalize...

... she is able to rework the intersection of the ideological systems of US capitalism and Yugoslav socialism. Such a politicized reading of Blažević-Krietzman’s novel-essay also recalls the idiosyncratic features of Yugoslav socialism that have informed the country’s self-perception and fostered peculiar...

...-century US ballad about the loss of a dear one—under torture, are all elements of an idealized trope of American heroism that make up the Yugoslav boy’s “American commando” identity. Such a composite identity employs US popular culture as a free-floating signifier and imbues it with staying power...

... of their approaches emanate from an underlying Orientalist fantasy. In her 1924 review of A Passage to India for the New York-based Saturday Review of Literature , West (2002 : 254) does find the novel to be “a political document of the first importance.” The “average Englishman was used to regard India...

... within postmodernist novels. In using Gravity’s Rainbow as a basis for interpreting explicit sexual practice as something more than a thematic element common to postmodernist novels, I posit that Pynchon’s postmodernist narrative practices are in fact themselves reliant on his depictions of “deviant...