Shoreless bridges : south east European writing in diaspora / / edited by Elka Agoston-Nikolova.

• Superior document: Studies in Slavic literature and poetics, v. 55
• TeilnehmendeR: Agoston-Nikolova, Elka.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 55.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Notes: Papers from a conference held April 2008, University of Groningen.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Shoreless Bridges /; Chinese Whispers /; Un-lost in Translation /; Telemachus’s Dream /; The Temptation of National Identity: The Case of Grigor Părličev /; Bulgarian Émigrés and Their Literature: A Gaze from Home /; The Other Road. On the Bulgarian Topos in the Work of Three Writers Awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize /; The Water under the Bridge: Tzveta Sofronieva’s Der alte Mann, das Meer, die Frau /; Goran Stefanovski – A Playwright in the Tower of Babel /; Fragments Between Desire and Nostalgia: A Macedonian Case /; Translating Dubravka Ugrešić and David Albahari /; Exile or Exodus: D. Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and Iliya Troyanov’s The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner /; Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 128264307X; 9786612643071; 9042030216
• ISSN: 0169-0175
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Elka Agoston-Nikolova.

Exiles cross borders, become non-mainstream individuals and break through barriers of thought and experience. Forced or chosen detachment can lead to originality of vision, awareness of simultaneous dimensions – in short a writing that challenges boundaries of genre, monolingualism and national literatures. The writers of the Balkan (Slavic) diaspora offer narratives of critical reflection, strange fusions and unions, representative of the new cultural identities of contemporary Europe. This volume presents an interesting combination of original writer’s essays (by Tzveta Sofronieva, Goran Stefanovski, Dubravka Ugresic) and academic discussions on the function of such narratives, seeking answers to a number of academic questions, related to the construction of the Self in processes of cultural translation/transmission.