Shoreless Bridges: South East European Writing in Diaspora (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 55)

Book info: Shoreless Bridges: South East European Writing in Diaspora (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 55) (Paperback, 184 pages) – Brill, 2010. Language: English.

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. Editorial Reviews Review ”Stimulating and informed, the eleven essays in this volume chart the beginnings of what could be a long discussion of literature that bears South East European origins.” in: Slavic and East European Journal 55.4 (Winter 2011)