History, Identity and Masculinity in David Albahari’s Bait
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https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2012.4.7Abstract
David Albahari belongs to the most prominent voices of Serbian literature, and his reputation of a writer immersed in postmodern experiment has not been shaken by his subsequent decision to start a search for self-identity within the frame of national history and the traumas of non-belonging. After having moved to Canada in 1993, Albahari’s fiction reveals a deep concern with the interplay of history and identity, which relates to Margaret Atwood’s intention to explore the processes of creating history within fictional texts. Albahari investigates the feeling of otherness, imposed by so called “historical overdosing” and a collective neurosis of uprootedness, thus contributing to the “international theme” in Serbian literature. The paper will focus upon Bait, one of his four novels translated into English, and the constructions of identity and masculine gender roles.
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