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In Avala Is Falling, Jovanović’s breakout success in 1978, a young woman challenges the expectations that teachers, parents, bus drivers, and doctors have for her. The “Avala” of the title refers to a mountain south of Belgrade which is home to some of Serbia’s most important nationalist monuments and shrines; it is also the site of the main mental hospital for the region, and its “falling” is the unexpected fulfillment of a prophecy from a traditional Serbian folk song. Jovanović’s use of stream of consciousness in her characters’ thinking and speaking, as well as of intertextuality in description and plot advancement heralded the arrival of an innovative new writer who was determined to break with the of traditional concerns of earlier women writers. This book is now recognized as much more than “jeans prose,” although the fame the book achieved under that characterization eventually pushed it to cult status. Jovanović is now considered a major avant-garde writer, whose stylistic innovations were as challenging as her women-centered themes.

Young women --- Serbia. --- 20th century, Avant-garde, Feminism, Fiction, Literature, Serbia, Women, Yugoslavia.

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Öffentliche Kontroversen um Literatur werden primär unter ethischen und juristischen Prämissen diskutiert und münden oftmals in Debatten, die den Zensurvorwurf perpetuieren. Darüber geraten die Lizenzen, auf die sich Literatur in Theorie und Praxis gern beruft, schnell in Vergessenheit. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band widmet sich den Sondererlaubnissen fiktionaler Literatur, die unter dem Schlagwort „Lizensur“ präsentiert, kritisch analysiert und historisch kontextualisiert werden. Auf diese Weise wird das spannungsreiche Verhältnis zwischen Fiktion und Lizenz in einen literatursysteminternen, geschichtlichen sowie rechtlichen Zusammenhang gestellt.

Fiction. --- Information technology --- Mass media --- Fiction Literature. --- IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property. --- Law and legislation. --- Law and legislation.

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This book ‘plays up’ stories of mostly unknown figures and their journeys through a life affected by movement, and a search for home. It engages with individuals and groups whose passions have carried the subjects through ‘uncharted’ or unhomely territories, here told in a series of ‘tracks’ depicting their roles in community memories and histories. Side A engages with individual journeys, such as Lewis, the American black literature book seller; the civil rights activist, Izzy, an American-Swedish folklorist; Eugene, a black classical pianist; and Pi, the Jew transported to Sweden during WWII. Side B focuses on communal histories and alternative educational and artistic spaces, addressing life writing and memory in German comic books, alternative educational spaces in Israel-Palestine and Africa, and ‘small press passions’ of zines/newsletter culture. Tellers and their interpreters are mediating identities where nationality, race, and class (and other markers of identity) have influenced selfhood and collective belonging – revealing how individuals and outsider cultures have the power to influence dominant cultures and inspire societal change. Anders Høg Hansen is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. He is the co-editor of Memory on Trial (2015), and author of Bob Dylan 1961-1967 (2012). He has a degree in cultural studies and has engaged broadly with zines/newsletters, alternative education, and art and social change.

Creative nonfiction. --- Literature. --- Collective memory. --- Non-Fiction Literature. --- World Literature. --- Memory Studies. --- Autobiography --- Biography as a literary form. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects.

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God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel? Beginning with the premise that guilt remains a universal human concern, this book considers confession via the classic confessional texts of Augustine and Rousseau. Employing this framework, John D. Sykes, Jr. examines Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, Percy’s Lancelot, and McEwan’s Atonement to investigate the evolution of confession and guilt in literature from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

Confession in literature. --- Fiction. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Philosophy. --- Literary Theory. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Religion—Philosophy. --- Religion --- Fiction Literature. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Theory

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This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland’s history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even productive, means of expression. From a wide range of critical perspectives, the individual essays address, among other issues, the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of silenced stories/voices of the past and their examination in the present, as well as millennial disaffection and the silencing of vulnerability in today’s neoliberal Ireland. The book ’s attention to silence provides a rich vocabulary for understanding what unfolds in the quiet interstices of Irish writing from recent decades. This study also invokes the past to understand the present and, thus, demonstrates the continuities and discontinuities that define how silence operates in Irish culture. M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Vigo, Spain. She is the author of a monograph on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and sits on the Editorial Board of European Joyce Studies. Her research on silence and vulnerability in contemporary Irish fiction has been funded by the Spanish MCIN, AEI and ERDF. She is the co-editor of Atlantic Communities: Translation, Mobility, Hospitality (2023) and the editor of Telling Truths: Evelyn Conlon and the Task of Writing (2023). José Carregal-Romero lectures at the University of Huelva, Spain. His research focuses on the intersections between gender and sexuality in contemporary Irish literature, with a keen interest in silence and vulnerability. He is the co-editor of Revolutionary Ireland, 1916–2016: Historical Facts & Social Transformations Re-Assessed (2020) and the author of Queer Whispers: Gay and Lesbian Voices of Irish Fiction (2021).

Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Fiction. --- Great Britain—History. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy