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Slobodan Selenić, Island Mortis
Slobodan Selenić, Island Mortis
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Chapter 6. Fragmented Serbia
1When we read about Dobrica Ćosić today, we likely get a short bio that tells us that he was “seen as the spiritual father of the Serbian nation,”1 and that he started down the path to nationalism when he “warned in 1968 of dangers connected with Albanian nationalism” at the Fourteenth Plenum of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia.2 But this reduction of Ćosić’s career turn, which did begin in or around 1968, implies that his Fourteenth Plenum speech was a beginning, when in fact it marked the end of one period of his intellectual and political life, a period in which he tried to engage constructively with the party and the state. Instead of being a herald of a nationalist turn, the speech was his final reckoning with changes that had begun earlier; his speech of May 1968 concluded a phase begun with Ćosić’s disappointment with his failure to alter the form of literary organization. This modification to the traditional view of Ćosić’s speech opens the door to a more appropriate reading of it: it was not an example of full-blown nationalist excess, it was an example of reasonable resistance to the structural changes that had begun in Yugoslavia in 1963.
2Ćosić’s first direct examination of the fragmentation of Serbia h
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Found in Translation, Too
Literature is a crucial piece in the puzzle of Yugoslavia’s memory. Let’s give English translations a read again, through the eyes of translators.
With Ellen Elias Bursać, Will Firth, Rawley Grau, Mirza Purić, Ena Selimović, and Jennifer Zoble.
Listen: “Found in Translation, Too” (Episode #97)
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PETER KORCHNAK: This is Remembering Yugoslavia, the Yugoblok show exploring the memory of a country that no long