The perspective of dislocation in "The Museum of Unconditional Surrender" and "Misistry of Pain" by Dubravka Ugrešić Cover Image

Перспективата на преместеноста во „Музеј на безусловното предавање“ и „Министерство на болката“ од Дубравка Угрешиќ
The perspective of dislocation in "The Museum of Unconditional Surrender" and "Misistry of Pain" by Dubravka Ugrešić

Author(s): Goce Smilevski
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: Dubravka Ugrešić; loss; homeland; language; identity; culture; dislocation; exile.

Summary/Abstract: In his essay Reflections on Exile, Edward Said points that, while “most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home; exiles are aware of at least two, and this plurality of vision gives rise to an awareness of simultaneous dimensions, an awareness that – to borrow a phrase from music – in contrapuntal”. This text examines this contrapuntal awareness of the characters from the novels The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić.

  • Issue Year: 11/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 249-258
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Macedonian
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