Stijn Vervaet
Biographic Data
| ID | 5937704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stijn Vervaet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stijn |
| FAMILY NAME | Vervaet |
| SIGNATURE | VERVAET S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5231-4664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Post-Yugoslav Constellations
Staging the Holocaust in the Land of Brotherhood and Unity
THIS article considers two theatrical works written by Dorde Lebovic (1928-2004), premiered in Socialist Yugoslavia in the mid-1950s and 1960s: Nebeski odred (The Heavenly Squad, 1957, co-authored with Aleksandar Obrenovi6) and Viktorija (Viktorija, 1968). Not only was Lebovic the first playwright in Socialist Yugoslavia to bring the theme of the Holocaust to a larger audience, but his plays also addressed issues of Holocaust remembrance in a hig…
Facing the Legacy of the 1990s
This article explores how questions of collective memory, more specifically those connected to the traumatic legacy of the 1990s in Yugoslavia, are addressed in Saša Ilić’s novel Berlinsko okno (The Berlin Window, 2005). At the heart of Berlinsko okno is the idea that, not unlike post-1989 Germany, Serbia should confront its recent past, especially its role in the wars of Yugoslav succession. This article argues that Ilić’s novel not merely attem…
Whose Museum? Whose History? Whose Memories? Remembering in the Work of Dubravka Ugrešić
On the first page of Dubravka Ugresic’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (2002) the narrator describes the contents found in the stomach of a walrus named Roland as exhibited at the Berlin Zoo, and suggests that we read the book in the same way we would interpret the objects found in Roland’s stomach – as a collection of random archaeological finds that at first glance lack any logical or narrative connection. In other words, we should not e…
Staging the Holocaust in the Land of Brotherhood and Unity
THIS article considers two theatrical works written by Dorde Lebovic (1928-2004), premiered in Socialist Yugoslavia in the mid-1950s and 1960s: Nebeski odred (The Heavenly Squad, 1957, co-authored with Aleksandar Obrenovi6) and Viktorija (Viktorija, 1968). Not only was Lebovic the first playwright in Socialist Yugoslavia to bring the theme of the Holocaust to a larger audience, but his plays also addressed issues of Holocaust remembrance in a hig…
Whose Museum? Whose History? Whose Memories? Remembering in the Work of Dubravka Ugrešić
On the first page of Dubravka Ugresic’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (2002) the narrator describes the contents found in the stomach of a walrus named Roland as exhibited at the Berlin Zoo, and suggests that we read the book in the same way we would interpret the objects found in Roland’s stomach – as a collection of random archaeological finds that at first glance lack any logical or narrative connection. In other words, we should not e…
Facing the Legacy of the 1990s
This article explores how questions of collective memory, more specifically those connected to the traumatic legacy of the 1990s in Yugoslavia, are addressed in Saša Ilić’s novel Berlinsko okno (The Berlin Window, 2005). At the heart of Berlinsko okno is the idea that, not unlike post-1989 Germany, Serbia should confront its recent past, especially its role in the wars of Yugoslav succession. This article argues that Ilić’s novel not merely attem…
Staging the Holocaust in the Land of Brotherhood and Unity
THIS article considers two theatrical works written by Dorde Lebovic (1928-2004), premiered in Socialist Yugoslavia in the mid-1950s and 1960s: Nebeski odred (The Heavenly Squad, 1957, co-authored with Aleksandar Obrenovi6) and Viktorija (Viktorija, 1968). Not only was Lebovic the first playwright in Socialist Yugoslavia to bring the theme of the Holocaust to a larger audience, but his plays also addressed issues of Holocaust remembrance in a hig…
Post-Yugoslav Constellations
Balkans: History, Politics, Society (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Astronomy (1 work) · Balkan and Eastern European Studies (1 work) · Constellation (1 work) · Croatian literature (1 work) · Croatian literature, history and criticism (1 work)