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{"title":"“Greetings from the Fort” – Ontology and Style in the Writings of Viktor Ivančić","authors":"Predrag Brebanović","doi":"10.1163/23751606-01401004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23751606-01401004","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the narratological concepts developed by G. Genette and D. Cohn, the paper argues that the writings of Viktor Ivančić are replete with signals of fictionality. Acknowledged as co-ordinates for mapping his work, they serve to reorganize it – by means of inserted marking-points and internal mirroring – as an intricate (inter)textual system in which journalism is turned into literature. The generically ambiguous text “Umjesto pogovora: pozdrav iz vojne utvrde,” which concludes the 2007 collection of journalistic pieces Animal Croatica: eseji o patriotizmu, is offered as case in point and a most expedient starting point for an analysis of Ivančić’s entire oeuvre.","PeriodicalId":42064,"journal":{"name":"Transcultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/23751606-01401004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46095692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"History Awry: The Sarajevo Assassination Fallout According to Basara and Jergović","authors":"Tomislav Brlek","doi":"10.1163/23751606-01401001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23751606-01401001","url":null,"abstract":"In Basara’s Anđeo atentata and Jergović’s Doboši noći the fiction of history is consistently being embrangled with the history of fiction, to the effect of constantly bringing up short all efforts to explain one in terms of the other. The literariness of the two novels being foregrounded precisely by its explicit denial, the issue of the interpretive bearing of narrative embedding on the factual content is inevitably raised. Relying on the theoretical insights of H. White, P. Ricoeur, R.N. Lebow and E. Runia, the paper argues that the demands thereby made on the reader work as a critique of the two principal means of making the disconcerting past conform: media sensationalism and exegetic misconstrual.","PeriodicalId":42064,"journal":{"name":"Transcultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/23751606-01401001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44939338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“A Difficult Neighbourhood. Essays on Russia and East-Central Europe since World War II” by John Besemeres, Australian National University Press 2016, pp. 525.","authors":"A. Curanović","doi":"10.1163/23751606-01401007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23751606-01401007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42064,"journal":{"name":"Transcultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/23751606-01401007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43080831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reception of Svetlana Alexievich in China","authors":"Lu Zhou","doi":"10.1163/23751606-01401008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23751606-01401008","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we would like to offer an analysis of issues related to the translation of Alexievich’s works into Chinese. Furthermore, we will look at reviews of her books by Chinese scholars and critics. On the one hand, opinions of professional literary critics will be represented. On the other hand, we would like to show Chinese writers’ perception of her literary works. We will discuss her possible influence on modern Chinese literature. The conclusions will offer our reflections on how cultural, historical and conceptual connections have been forged between Alexievich’s literary legacy and her Chinese audience.","PeriodicalId":42064,"journal":{"name":"Transcultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/23751606-01401008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45378970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Symbolic Role of Ex-Yugoslav Literature in The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić","authors":"Sonja Veselinović","doi":"10.1163/23751606-01401005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/23751606-01401005","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the ways in which Dubravka Ugrešić treats Yugoslav/Croatian literature, literary genres, conventions and style in her novelThe Ministry of Pain. From the perspective of an exiled professor of literature, Tanja Lucić, and her exiled students living in the Netherlands, Yugoslav literature is perceived and valued in the light of several non-literary factors. Tanja Lucić finds it absurd to teach their former country’s literature (or literatures) as if the notion of nation, to which they no longer seem to relate, or the future war and trauma are always already inscribed in it. This oppositional reading and its reflection in the very design of the novelThe Ministry of Painwill be discussed in this paper, in an effort to outline Ugrešić’s post-national poetics.","PeriodicalId":42064,"journal":{"name":"Transcultural Studies","volume":"34 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/23751606-01401005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41248771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"To Embrace or to Contest Urban Regeneration? Ambiguities of Artistic and Social Practice in Contemporary Johannesburg","authors":"Fiona Siegenthaler","doi":"10.17885/HEIUP.TS.2017.2.23653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17885/HEIUP.TS.2017.2.23653","url":null,"abstract":"Johannesburg inner city has undergone major changes in the last twenty-five years, a process keenly observed, commented and negotiated by many local artists. The transitional years can be summarized by two phases in urban policy, the discourses of which are coined by urban ‘decay’ marked by informal practices in the first years of transition in the 1990s, and ‘urban regeneration’ when the city authorities intervened with private-public partnerships and a public art program in the 2000s. These recent interventions promise a better city but also appear to reinforce social injustice and spatial control. As an integral part of strategic gentrification, they involve artists and the art market, offering new opportunities and spaces for studios, galleries, or art commissions while extruding undesired and often illegalized residents and traders. The reaction of artists in Johannesburg is accordingly ambivalent if not contradictory. Some try to understand the logic of informal practices and include or even support them in their art practice. This often involves opposing the increasing regulations by the city authorities and police and engaging with discriminated stakeholders. Others discover business opportunities by offering their creative, administrative and collaborative expertise for public art projects to the city administration and thus blend into the official urban policy. Finally, many artists are just residents and visitors of these neighborhoods, sometimes unintentionally benefiting from or even contributing to these developments. I argue that as social actors, artists willingly or not participate in and shape the city even beyond their artistic practice. Therefore, their artistic intentions and their practice as ordinary urban dwellers often interfere or even converge with each other, This paper discusses two case studies of artistic interventions in the inner city of Johannesburg by Ismail Farouk and the Trinity Session and analyzes the observed ambiguities between alignment with and opposition to urban policy and its implications with regard to the role of artists as social actors in the crossfire of urban regeneration and social justice.","PeriodicalId":42064,"journal":{"name":"Transcultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"7-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43390705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Issue 2017/1","authors":"D. Panagiotopoulos, R. Wagner","doi":"10.17885/heiup.ts.2017.1.23707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.2017.1.23707","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42064,"journal":{"name":"Transcultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"4-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41502644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mediating Mobile Traditions: The Tablighi Jama'at and the International Islamic University between Pakistan and Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan)","authors":"Dietrich Reetz","doi":"10.17885/HEIUP.TS.2017.1.23584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17885/HEIUP.TS.2017.1.23584","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will discuss how Muslim networks from South Asia contributed to the reconstruction of religious, cultural, and social belonging as they created new modes and formats of regional interaction and connectivity with actors and institutions in Post-Soviet Central Asia. This will be shown here on the examples of the activities of the conservative preaching groups of the missionary movement of the Tablighi Jama’at (TJ) and the related Deoband tradition of Sunni Islam, on one side, and of the comparatively modern International Islamic University in Islamabad (IIUI), Pakistan, and its graduates, on the other. After explaining their approach to Central Asia, it will discuss forms of expansion and local adaptation of their networks, practices and concepts, focusing on the cases of Kyrgyzstan for the Tablighis and Tajikistan for the IIUI. Their mobility is a larger process of regional transformation, where two-way secular interaction with South Asia is also involved.","PeriodicalId":42064,"journal":{"name":"Transcultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"123-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49620690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Territorialisation, Ambivalence, and Representational Spaces in Gilgit-Baltistan","authors":"A. Bouzas","doi":"10.17885/heiup.ts.2017.1.23585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.2017.1.23585","url":null,"abstract":"The article unveils the complexities of spatiality in the Kashmir borderland with reference to the problem of spatial conceptualisation of South Asian disputed border zones. It focuses on processes of territorialisation (new meanings of territorial control) in Gilgit-Baltistan, a territory under the control of Pakistan but associated with the Kashmir dispute. Through the examination of the production of space in Gilgit-Baltistan, and by looking at the specific case of the Baltistan division, the article highlights inconsistencies that denote a shift in the sense of belonging by groups in Baltistan. This shift is marked by a condition of ambivalence, due to the territory’s peripheral position and its status as a border zone with a great potential for confrontation. Various groups in Baltistan are challenging the prevailing context with the revival of cultural and symbolic expressions that transcend existing boundaries and thus claim forms of regional belonging beyond current separations.","PeriodicalId":42064,"journal":{"name":"Transcultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"197-223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44450753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Weapon of the Discontented? Trans-River Migration as Tax Avoidance Practice and Lever in Eastern Bukhara","authors":"Jeanine Dağyeli","doi":"10.17885/HEIUP.TS.2017.1.23587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17885/HEIUP.TS.2017.1.23587","url":null,"abstract":"Until the early twentieth century, the border formed between contemporary Tajikistan and Afghanistan by the River Panj/Amu Darya was relatively easily traversable, even for larger groups of people with bulk loads and animals. Migration from one bank to the other was frequent and family units in riparian areas often had members on both sides of the river. Migration, especially collective outmigration, was, however, also an act of protest by dissatisfied peasants and pastoralists who sought to evade disproportionate or irregular taxes. Out-migration affected the interests of authorities and different social actors more intensely than other forms of evasive protest; it forced rulers or local authorities to negotiate terms of return, or contend with labour deficits, degradation of lands and irrigation structures, (cash) crop shortages, and unprotected border zones. Evasive tax flight and barter arrangements for return were a promising avenue for poorer population segments to pressure authorities for better conditions. This implied the involvement of mediators, community elders, local authorities, and others, who negotiated on behalf of the different stakeholders. This paper examines various incidences of evasive, trans-border migration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries against the background of British and Russian colonial encroachment and increasing marginalisation of these riparian regions and population regimes in the border lands. It argues that marginality equipped the local population with a lever for pressuring authorities, which, however, could also be turned against them.","PeriodicalId":42064,"journal":{"name":"Transcultural Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"169-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44901389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}