Dubravka Djuric's The Politics of Hope selects from a lifetime of writing by one of Eastern Europe's most engaging living poets and feminist theorists. Djuric writes through the changes in governance in Yugoslavia to the horrors of civil war to the new Serbia that is emerging as one of the most independent states in Europe. Djuric's forms range from short prose blocks to multi-page field poems linking the radical changes in her national identity to the radical strategies and formats of the avant garde. Djuric formulates the politics of identity through nation state, language, and poetic form showing readers how these issues have changed since the 90s civil war in the former Yugoslavia.

Author: Dubravka
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Roof Books
Published: 12/01/2023
Pages: 249
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.00w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780937804940

About the Author
Dubravka Djuric was born in Dubrovnik (now in Croatia). A poet, critic and Professor at the Faculty for Media and Communication in Belgrade, she received her Ph.D. in Literary Theory from the Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad. Since 2015 she has acted as President of the Serbian Association for Anglo-American Studies. She has published numerous books of criticism and studies of poetry and art. Her poetry has been translated into English, Polish, Italian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovenian, Albanian and Hungarian. She lives in Belgrade with her husband, Misko Suvakovic.

Biljana D. Obradovic is a Serbian American poet, critic and translator. She has received the Masaryk Academy of Arts Medal for her Artistic Achievements, Prague, Czech Republic. She is the recipient of the Norman C. Francis Award for Excellence in Research for 2015 at Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans where she teaches Creative Writing and is a Professor of English. Her books include Le Riche Monde (Raska skola / Cross-Cultural Communications, 1999), Frozen Embraces (Center of Emigrants from Serbia, 2001), which won the Rastko Petrovic Award, and Little Disruptions (WordTec Editions, 2022). WordTech also published her fourth collection, Incognito (2017). Her poems appear in Three Poets in New Orleans (2000). She is the main translator and co-editor with Dubravka Djuric, of CAT PAINTERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN POETRY (with a preface by Charles Bernstein: Dialogos Press, 2016) which won the Misha Djordjevic Award (2019), and she co-edited and translated a Serbian poetry issue of Atlanta Review (2021). She has edited a collection of essays by the late poet, Philip Dacey, entitled Heavenly Muse: Essays on Poetry (Lavender Ink, 2020). Her poems have been translated into Serbian, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.