In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists.

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: War, Postmodernism, and Literary Immanence Chapter 2: The Spectacle of the Siege Chapter 3: The Phantasmagoria and Seduction of Kitsch Chapter 4: The Search for a Language of the Historical Present Chapter 5: The Quickened Moral Pulse Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

"Dragana Obradović actually cares about literature, is a sensitive reader, and understands that literature provides a unique window onto social processes. Her willingness to consider writers from all three of the main languages and cultures that made up the former Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian linguistic space is praiseworthy. Overall, this is an excellently written book."

"Dragana Obradovic actually cares about literature, is a sensitive reader, and understands that literature provides a unique window onto social processes. Her willingness to consider writers from all three of the main languages and cultures that made up the former Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian linguistic space is praiseworthy. Overall, this is an excellently written book." -- Andrew Baruch Wachtel, President, American University of Central Asia "Writing the Yugoslav Wars is an important, unique, and timely work for the field of post-Yugoslav and, broadly, Balkan literary and cultural studies." -- Natasa Kovacevic, Department of English, Eastern Michigan University "Dragana Obradovic has crafted a well-written and insightful work. Most importantly, she presents an innovative argument related to the link between the evolution/transformation of literary postmodernism in Yugoslavia and the ethics and aesthetics of war writing." -- Stijn Vervaet, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo