Reading War, Making Memory: Remembering the Bosnian War across Europe

Book launch with Astrid Erll and Alison Landsberg. 

Reading War - Making Memory In the fields of literary and memory studies, the cultural impact of the Bosnian War of 1992-1995 appears—despite the scale of devastation—somewhat minimal. Reading War, Making Memory focuses on how authors from the diaspora of the former Yugoslavia have transmitted and translated the realities of the war in their fiction, illuminating how these texts turn the culture and memory of Bosnia-Herzegovina into an act of “mnemonic migration.” Drawing from close readings, studies of public reception, and focus group interviews, this volume explores the attempt to reshape social frameworks of memory, and the wider reception and impact of memory-making literature across Europe.

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Tea Sindbæk Andersen, email tea.s.andersen@hum.ku.dk