ULISSESES WITH NO ITAKA

Text topic: Culture and National Trauma

Text author: Саша Радојчић

The essay discusses different ways in which contemporary Serbian poetry responded to the experiences of the wars for the Yugoslav heritage, as well as to the experiences of the consequences of those wars. A broader overview of four characteristic approaches to these topics is given, in the works of Stevan Tontić, Duško Babić, Đorđe Nešić and Nebojša Devetak. These poets artistically articulate painful experiences of suffering, destruction, loss of homeland, exile and the search for new ways of affirming personal and collective identity.