Book Chapters by Andrea Lešić-Thomas
Popularni žanrovi i alternativni svjetovi: Atwood, Le Guin, Byatt , 2022
Avangarda i komentari: međunarodni naučni zbornik radova u čast prof. Gojka Tešića, ur. Perišić, Igor i Vladan Bajčeta (Beograd: Institut za književnost i umetnost, 2021), str. 573-586, 2021
Geschichtete Identitäten: (Post-)Imperiales Erzählen und Identitätsbildung im östlichen Europa, ed. by Thomas Grob, Anna Hodel and Jan Miluška , 2021
Cultures of Economy in South-Eastern Europe: Spotlights and Perspectives, ed. by. Jurij Murašov, Davor Beganović and Andrea Lešić (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2020), pp. 169-191.
Jugoslovenska književnost: prošlost, sadašnjost i budućnost jednog spornog pojma / Yugoslav Literature: The Past, Present and Future of a Contested Notion, ed. by Adrijana Marčetić, Bojana Stojanović Pantović, Vladimir Zorić, Dunja Dušanić, Beograd: Čigoja štampa, 2019
Remembering War and Peace in South-East Europe, 2020
The network was intended to intensify the in¬ternational exchange of scholars and ad¬vanced students from different branches – history, political sciences, art history, media studies and literature, across borders between nation-states whose cultural politics were often antagonistic toward each other. The mem¬bers of the network shared a common in¬terest in the diverse transnational and na¬tional memory cultures of South-Eastern Europe, their interference as well as their rivalry. The network, which met annually at workshops and summer schools in Ljubljana (2010), Belgrade (2011), Split (2012) and Sarajevo (2013), published its proceedings in four anthologies: Balkan Memories: Media Constructions of National and Transnational History (2012), ‚Brüderlichkeit‘ und ‚Bruderzwist‘. Mediale Inszenierungen des Aufbaus und des Niedergangs politischer Gemeinschaften in Ost- und Südosteuropa (2014), Europe and the Balkans: Decades of 'Europeanization'? (2015) and Cultures of Economy in South-East Europe: Spotlights and Perspectives (2019).
The workshop in Novi Sad in 2011, where the renowned Serbian writers Dragan Velikić and Sreten Ugričić, as well as the filmmaker Želimir Žilnik, presented their recent work, was attended by around 70 participants who presented their papers in three panels. The first panel, Commemorating the World Wars and the Shoa, dealt with memories of the wars in the Balkans, especially of the First and Second World Wars as well as of the Yugoslavia succession wars of the 1990s. The authors revealed how the media proposed analogies between different kinds of war, as if the same opponents were fatally involved in a perennial conflict lasting for centuries. The second panel, Brotherhood and Unity – Remembrance and Oblivion, investigated how it was possible for the nations in Tito's Yugoslavia to live peacefully together for more than forty years after the Second World War. Integrative and centripetal strategies were discussed in order to gain insights into the question of how the multi-ethnic state was perceived within a country and abroad. The third panel was dedicated to Memory Cultures of Regions and Minorities; it focused on small nations and on specific regions, such as the Serbian province of Vojvodina, where numerous minorities lived and still live.
Based on this ambitious program, an extensive volume of collected essays was planned to be published in collaboration with Miranda Jakiša (University of Vienna), but for various reasons it could not be realized. In the end it turned out that it was not possible to link the various disciplinary cultures into a publication; the symposium in Novi Sad, in the breadth of interests it enthusiastically brought together, proved to have been a unique and somehow utopian event linked to a certain moment in the history of research. While several authors have already published their contributions in other contexts, we want to document the remaining contributions in this small, belated volume. Thereby, we fulfill our commitment to the authors who faithfully entrusted us with their texts, but also to the DAAD, which funded this publication. The encounter in Novi Sad perhaps can also be understood as a rare moment of difficult Euro-optimism before a period of disillusion and skepticism. Therefore, we reprint the program of the symposium after this introduction. The collected papers in this volume might as well be an encouragement for readers also to study other publications that somehow originated in the symposium in Novi Sad.
in: "Shifting Borders: theory and Identity in French Literature", ed. by Emily Butterworth and Kathryn Robson (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2001)
Ljubavni romani i feministički eskapizam: da li je bijeg mogućnost slobode?
Articles in journals by Andrea Lešić-Thomas
Novi Izraz, 2020
Novi Izraz, 2018
Novi Izraz
Balkan u očima knjiţevne teoretičarke Objavljeno u: Novi Izraz, 65/66, 2016, str. 84-92.
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