Shoreless bridges : south east European writing in diaspora / / 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 lite...

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Superior document:Studies in Slavic literature and poetics, v. 55
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Shoreless Bridges / Elka Agoston-Nikolova
  • Chinese Whispers / Goran Stefanovski
  • Un-lost in Translation / Tzveta Sofronieva
  • Telemachus’s Dream / Dubravka Ugrešić
  • The Temptation of National Identity: The Case of Grigor Părličev / Raymond Detrez
  • Bulgarian Émigrés and Their Literature: A Gaze from Home / Nikolaj Aretov
  • The Other Road. On the Bulgarian Topos in the Work of Three Writers Awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize / Penka Angelova
  • The Water under the Bridge: Tzveta Sofronieva’s Der alte Mann, das Meer, die Frau / Chantal Wright
  • Goran Stefanovski – A Playwright in the Tower of Babel / Goce Smilevski
  • Fragments Between Desire and Nostalgia: A Macedonian Case / Maja Bojadžievska
  • Translating Dubravka Ugrešić and David Albahari / Ellen Elias-Bursać
  • 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 / Dimitar Kambourov
  • Contributors.