Models of a strangeness/an otherness in the autobiographical prose of Bora Ćosić Cover Image

MODELE OBCOŚCI/INNOŚCI W PROZIE AUTOBIOGRAFICZNEJ BORY ĆOSICIA
Models of a strangeness/an otherness in the autobiographical prose of Bora Ćosić

Author(s): Magdalena Ślawska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Serbian Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: autobiographical prose; familiarity; strangeness; otherness; identiy; exile; emigrant; stateless; nomad

Summary/Abstract: This article describes different models of a strangeness/an otherness which are present in the autobiographical works of Bora Ćosić, one of the most famous post-Yugoslav stateless. The texts that have been analyzed were written in an exile and these are: Dnevnik apatrida, Carinska deklaracija, Novi stanar, Put na Aljasku and Consul u Beogradu, in which the writer consistently shows himself as a foreigner/a stranger, whereby these categories positively evaluate and make the foundation of the unstable, hybrid identity - national, cultural and artistic (literary) one.

  • Issue Year: 19/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 239-248
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish