Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory

Stijn Vervaet is an Associate Professor in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Balkan Studies in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I The Generation of Survivors 1. Holocaust Testimony in Socialist Yugoslavia 2. Staging the Holocaust in the Land of Brotherhood and Unity: Đorđe Lebović’s Holocaust Dramas 3. Ilija Jakovljević’s Poetry of Testimony Part II The 1.5 Generation 4. Writing the Subject after the Holocaust: Konstantinović’s Ahasver, or Treatise about a Beer Bottle 5. The Gulag and The Holocaust in Danilo Kiš’s A Tomb for Boris Davidovich Part III The Second and Third Generations 6. Entangled Histories: Family Memories and the Representation of the Holocaust in the Work of David Albahari 7. Berlin Encounters: The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s through the Lens of the Holocaust 8. Between Local and Global Politics of Memory: Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Serbian Prose Fiction and Film Concluding Remarks Index

"Stijn Vervaet’s ground-breaking study not only fills the gaps in the existing literature on the topic, but also opens up new vistas and asks pertinent questions which will serve as signposts for many researchers in years to come. This valuable book deserves a wide readership and a careful reading."Zoran Milutinović, University College London, UK"In Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory, Vervaet creates an archive of Yugoslav literary works in order to trace the complexities, ambiguities and unexpected turns of Holocaust memory. While the argument is about the Yugoslav context, Vervaet’s masterful reading contributes to wider debates about testimony, witnessing and legacies of historical trauma."Emil Kerenji, Applied Research Scholar at The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA