Wars, traumas, and identities in the Serbian novel 1991-2021 (II)

Abstract

The second part of the paper deals with the testimonial-representative paradigm as a choice based on the personal expression of unique experiences of traumatic events as a frame for contemporary concrete understanding and a kind of cathartic solution to identity contradictions. The outcome shows that both paradigms could also be productive in articulating adequate identity politics and/or principle understandings of identity problems only if they consider each other as balancing possibilities.

Keywords

• serbian literature
• novel
• war
• trauma
• identity
• nation
• poetics
• paradigm
• history
• culture