AMERIKA – BERLIN – AMSTERDAM: PROSTORNE DIMENZIJE U DJELIMA DUBRAVKE UGREŠIĆ
AMERICA – BERLIN – AMSTERDAM: SPATIAL DIMENSIONS IN DUBRAVKA UGREŠIĆ’S WORKS

Summary/Abstract: Considering the theoretical premises within the field of literary geography, which takes space as its central concept, engages with the ways in which space is represented in literary texts, and strives to respond to the pre-articulated crisis of representation on which its theoretical model rests, this paper undertakes a comparative analysis of American Fictionary, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, and The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić. The discussion starts with a problematization of the theoretical framework of literary geography and its claim to interdisciplinarity. By observing the textual mechanisms through which the spaces of America, Berlin, and Amsterdam are constructed, in relation to the space of Yugoslavia as the referential hub for all three texts, and by examining the specific framing of each individual space through discursive techniques, the paper also demonstrates that reading Dubravka Ugrešić’s texts requires attention from the perspective of the function of the text rather than from the perspective of its meaning.

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