Dvadeset koraka na YUG : moj izbor iz postjugoslovenske književnosti; Njëzet hapa në YUG : përzgjedhja ime nga letërsia postjugosllave; Húsz lépés yug irányába : válogatásom a posztjugoszláv irodalomból
Twenty steps to YUG: my selection from post-Yugoslav literature

Author(s): Saša Ilić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Keywords: literary canon revision; post-Yugoslav literature; cultural memory; ethnic nationalism critique; engaged literature; critical education; collective identity reconstruction
Summary/Abstract: Saša Ilić's book of selected literary presentations, Twenty Steps at YUG, seeks to bridge the gap that arose in the teaching of literature when authors of inappropriate ethnicity and content imbued with ideas of unity among peoples were removed from it. She does this by necessarily reducing the selection of works with the power to dissolve the ramparts of ignorance, misunderstanding and non-acceptance, established during the devastating breakup of Yugoslavia. Wars fought for the final ethnic demarcation also meant the destruction of cultural heritage and the complete erasure of traces of the presence of others, so that neither places nor people would remember them. At the same time, the cleansing of educational programs and culture took place, with the aim of creating an unquestionable canon in the service of the policy of self-sufficient, exclusive ethno-nationalism. The short stories that this book brings introduce us to the authors whom such a political order considers hostile and bring us closer to literary works, theater pieces, as well as comics that talk about the permanent, often hard-to-see consequences of the country's disintegration in the field of culture.

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