The Post-sephardic Belgrade Narrative: The Case of David Albahari
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https://doi.org/10.11649/ch.2019.010Keywords:
Sephardic literature, tradition, Holocaust, postmodernism, memory, religious canonAbstract
The paper attempts to establish a literary and historical continuity between the literary works of David Albahari and the pre-WWII Sephardic cultural context of Belgrade. The war and the Holocaust interrupted the natural development of this culture. The interruption in development caused by the Holocaust did not result in an effort to build bridges to the past, but rather to redefine basic identity codes, as is evident in Albahari’s oeuvre. This indicates the appearance of a new and qualitatively different status of cultural patterns, into which events preceding the catastrophe were integrated after the fact.
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