Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Fine Arts
Major
Creative Writing
Date of Defense
4-14-2017
Graduate Advisor
Shane Seely
Committee
Shane Seely
Steven Schreiner
Glenn Irwin
Abstract
Abstract
These poems are about the first hand witnessing of the Balkan war and its visceral repercussions, ripping of families across generations and continents due to religious intolerance, and an identity crisis within the diaspora of the former Yugoslav people. They interact with appeals of loss, in terms of bodies, memory, and material, despair within the identity of the self in and outside of religion, and the perception of love and belonging, but not necessarily in that order. They are largely inspired by victim story-telling, translations of conversations with natives of the former Yugoslavia and their children, and ramifications of searching for the self and a place to call home.
OCLC Number
1041112815
Recommended Citation
Sadikovic, Maja, "Damar on Fridays" (2017). Theses. 317.
https://irl.umsl.edu/thesis/317
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