CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Sljukic, Dara |
|---|---|
| Title | The Politics of (Non)Belonging in the Exile Narratives by Dasa Drndic |
| Summary | In this thesis I am analyzing the three novels by a Croatian/post-Yugoslav author Daša Drndić, “Dying in Toronto”, Canzone di Guerra and Leica format. I focus on the ways in which they deal with the various politics of (non)belonging through their thematization of exile and Holocaust. I argue that the politics of belonging is the underlying issue of Drndić’s novels, connecting her themes of exile and fascism. I conduct my analysis through, firstly, situating the novels in the post-Yugoslav literary field and engaging them with the frameworks of transnational literature; and secondly, by engaging the novels with the concepts of exile, home, (non)belonging and language politics. The aim of my thesis is to uncover the complexity of Drndić’s writing on exile and (non)belonging and, at the same time, its value for the conceptualizations of transnational literature. I also aim to contribute to the history of women’s anti-war writing in the region of former Yugoslavia. |
| Supervisor | Lukic, Jasmina |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/sljukic_dara.pdf |
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