Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture Imagining N
Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Imagining New Europe provides a comprehensive study of the way in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and the media have represented the recent phenomenon of Eastern European migration to
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Imagining New Europe Vedrana Veličković
Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Vedrana Veličković
Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture Imagining New Europe
Vedrana Veličković University of Brighton Brighton, UK
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To my father, Nebojša Veličković (1951–2017), the greatest supporter of my journey to the West
Acknowledgements
This book has taken longer to write than I had hoped. Personal losses can affect writing as much as they can re-ignite the desire to keep on writing. The idea for this book grew out of one strand of my doctoral research on post-Yugoslav women’s writing and (un)belonging and I am pleased that what began as a new project some years ago has kept this spirit of not quite belonging. In Other words, while the book engages with representations of Eastern Europeans in contemporary (British) culture, it falls between several disciplinary stools and looks at literature, media, popular culture and film, providing an outsider-insider perspective of those representations (Western/British and Eastern European). In this sense, it has also been a very personal book to write, a continuous reflection on my own (un)belongin
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