The Identity of Serbian Emigrants at the End of the 20th Century (Based on Books by Mileta Prodanović and David Albahari)

Dejan V. Ajdačić

doi:10.18778/8331-033-6

The Identity of Serbian Emigrants at the End of the 20th Century (Based on Books by Mileta Prodanović and David Albahari)

Dejan V. Ajdačić

University of Gdańsk, Institute of Classical and Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Philology

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4098-4660 (unauthenticated)

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Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Series: Series Ceranea

Pages: 261-275

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-033-6.18

Keywords: migracja, migracja etnosu serbskiego w XVI-XIII wieku, historia Słowian południowych zachodnich wschodnich, asymilacja, emigracja w literaturze

Published: 30 December 2022

Categories: History, Open Access

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In the 1990s, due to wars, misery and disapproval of the violent government, part of the educated population of Serbia left the country. The author sheds light on the names of emigrants, dilemmas about leaving, feelings of arrival in the chosen country and discusses issues of identity in selected novels by Mileta Prodanović Garden in Venice (Vrt u Veneciji, 2007), This Could Be Your Lucky Day (Ovo bi mogao biti vaš srećan dan, 2000), David Albahari’s novel The Snowman (Snežni čovek, 1995), and the essays Diaspora and other things (Dijaspora i druge stvari, 2008).

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Ajdačić, Dejan V. 2022. “The Identity of Serbian Emigrants at the End of the 20th Century (Based on Books by Mileta Prodanović and David Albahari)”. In Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day, edited by Zofia A. Brzozowska, Piotr Kręzel, and Izabela Lis-Wielgosz, 10:261-75. Series Ceranea. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-033-6.18.