Reading War, Making Memory: Remembering the Bosnian War Across Europe

A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War into their fiction, Reading War, Making Memory spotlights a vital new framework for understanding the impact of conflict upon diasporic literature from the region of the former Yugoslavia: ＂mnemonic migration.＂

Fedja Wierød Borčak holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and is currently a Research Assistant at the School of Culture and Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark. His main research interests include post-Yugoslav literature, and he has written on the figure of the child in Bosnian-Herzegovinian fiction as well as themes of mobility and diasporic writing.