Special editions, No. 21
Edited by: Blaž Kavšek and Gregor Moder
Series editor: Aleš Mendiževec
Index: Blaž Kavšek
Language editors: Josh Rocchio, Jana Wilcoxen
Cover design and layout: AA + Studio Kruh
Publisher: Maska
The book is part of the MOJ DOM project supported by EU Programme CERV (European Remembrance), caried out by the partner consortium that combines research, non-governmental and artistic organizations from both new and old EU member states: Codici – Cooperativa sociale onlus, Lapsus – Laboratorio di analisi storica del mondo contemporaneo (Italy), Documenta – Centar za suočavanje s prošlošću, Institut za društvena istraživanja, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku (Croatia), Maska Ljubljana, Mirovni institut (Slovenia), Univerza v Regensburgu (Germany).
The Resilience of History: The Yugoslav Wars through Art
The volume deals with the traumatic experiences of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and focuses on artistic, and especially theatrical, responses to them. The authors consider the role of art in both the acute processing and the long-term formation of political and personal memory of the trauma of war and exile. Although the primary subject of the monograph is the relationship between art and trauma on the backdrop of Yugoslav wars, it also features a special section dedicated to the war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza.
Featuring articles by Gregor Moder, Branislav Jakovljević, Ana Antić, Blaž Kavšek, Damir Arsenijević and Saša Asentić, Zala Dobovšek, Katja Kobolt, Aleksandra Starcevic, Djordje Popović, Marina Johnson, Sofija Rosa-Lavrentii, Bojana Kunst, Janez Janša and Bojana Cvejić
The full book in a PDF format is available here.
Special editions, No. 21
Edited by: Blaž Kavšek and Gregor Moder
Series editor: Aleš Mendiževec
Index: Blaž Kavšek
Language editors: Josh Rocchio, Jana Wilcoxen
Cover design and layout: AA + Studio Kruh
Publisher: Maska
The book is part of the MOJ DOM project supported by EU Programme CERV (European Remembrance), caried out by the partner consortium that combines research, non-governmental and artistic organizations from both new and old EU member states: Codici – Cooperativa sociale onlus, Lapsus – Laboratorio di analisi storica del mondo contemporaneo (Italy), Documenta – Centar za suočavanje s prošlošću, Institut za društvena istraživanja, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku (Croatia), Maska Ljubljana, Mirovni institut (Slovenia), Univerza v Regensburgu (Germany).
Table of Contents
1. The Resilience of History: The Yugoslav Wars Through Art
Blaž Kavšek and Gregor Moder
2. Relocating Trauma
War and Representation: On The Balkan Trilogy by Dušan Jovanović
Gregor Moder
The War of the End of the World, at the End of the World
Branislav Jakovljević
3. Repeating Trauma
Perpetrators, Psychiatry, and Forgetting: Reckoning with Responsibility in Serbia
Ana Antić
Bosnian War, Genocide, and the “Holocaust Script”: The Burden of Analogy
Blaž Kavšek
From Victim to Survivor: Realizing the Value of Survival in Artistic Practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Damir Arsenijević and Saša Asentić
4. Healing Trauma
The Exiled Body in the Theater
Zala Dobovšek
The Little Prince Defies Silence: Literary and Cultural Agency for and with Children in Times of Displacement
Katja Kobolt
5. Humanism vs. Antihumanism
Wer, Woher, Wohin: A Successful Arrival (in Words) in Marica Bodrožić’s Sterne erben, Sterne färben: Meine Ankunft in Wörtern
Aleksandra Starcevic
Post-Yugoslav Author in the House of Being
Djordje Popović
6. Resistance
Palestinian Theater in the West Bank: An Interview with Iman Aoun
Marina Johnson
The Role of Theater in the Social Adaptation of Children and Adolescents in the Context of the Russian Military Aggression Against Ukraine
Sofiia Rosa-Lavrentii
7. Theory in Exile
Theory in Exile. An Exchange of Letters
Bojana Kunst, Janez Janša and Bojana Cvejić
The Editors
Gregor Moder is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana. He co-founded Aufhebung – International Hegelian Association and served as its first president (2014–2020). His works include Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and Negativity (Northwestern University Press, 2017), Antigone. An Essay on Hegel’s Political Philosophy (FDV, 2023, in Slovenian, forthcoming in German with Turia+Kant), an edited volume on The Object of Comedy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, with Jamila Mascat) and an edited volume on The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024, with Ivana Novak).
Blaž Kavšek earned his PhD in literary history from University of Ljubljana. Until 2022, he was employed as a research assistant at the Department of Slovene Studies at the Faculty of Arts UL, and since 2023, he collaborates with Maska on the international project Moj dom. He writes and gives lectures on cultural and literary history of the 19th and 20th century with special emphasis on the history of authorship. He has published research papers in The Art of Words and Slavic Review Ljubljana, and essays, literary and theater criticism on Radio Študent, in Literatura, Maska, Razpotja and in several playbills. His monograph Slovenski pisatelj 19. stoletja med napuhom in skromnostjo (Slavistično društvo Slovenije) is forthcoming in 2024.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CERV. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.