Perica: Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur

Committee member Ivana Perica is the author of Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur: Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968 (Bloomsbury). In this alternate framing of Eastern and Western European literary and political afterlives of revolution between 1928 and 1968, Perica combines the transfer of ideas between historical turning points with a comparative reading of political literatures in the European East and West to address the disparity between the abundance of scholarly accounts of 1968 and the simultaneous forgetting of developments in the interwar period that peaked around 1928. Offering new readings of Bertolt Brecht, Ivan Olbracht, and August Cesarec among others, her book excavates a series of problems, optics, and styles characteristic of the forgotten episodes in the literary history of the twentieth century.

 

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