The Multicentric Identity of David Albahari: A Jewish Serbian-Canadian Writer Cover Image

The Multicentric Identity of David Albahari: A Jewish Serbian-Canadian Writer
The Multicentric Identity of David Albahari: A Jewish Serbian-Canadian Writer

Author(s): Vesna Lopičić, Milena Kostić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fiction, Comparative Study of Literature, Serbian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: Serbian; Canadian; Jewish identity; multicentric world.

Summary/Abstract: Besides spatial dynamics, Albahari’s literary poetics is to a great extent defined by his religious affiliation. The article aims to show how Albahari’s different personal reference points (Serbia, Canada, Jewishness) build up the image of Albahari as an author comfortable in the emerging multicentric cultural economy.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 226-239
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English