My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You. Aleksandar Hemon

Authors

  • Enrico Davanzo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2020.i16.910

Keywords:

Aleksandar Hemon, Biography, Autofiction, Family, Bosnian-Americans

Abstract

Review of My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You. Aleksandar Hemon

Author Biography

Enrico Davanzo

Enrico Davanzo si è laureato presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, dove attualmente ricopre la posizione di cultore della materia. I suoi interessi di ricerca vertono sulle letterature dell’ex-Jugoslavia nel periodo successivo ai conflitti degli anni Novanta, e in particolare sulla produzione degli autori emigrati negli Stati Uniti.

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Mortimer, Armine Kotine. “Autofiction as Allofiction: Dubrovsky’s L’Après-vivre.” L’Esprit Créateur 49.3 (2009): 22-35.

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Srikanth, Siddharth. “Fictionality and Autofiction.” Style 53.3 (2019): 344-363.

Shteyngarth, Gary. “Pronek is Illuminated.” The New York Times 15 settembre 2002. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/books/pronek-is-illuminated.html. Visitato il 07/07/2020.

Weiner, Sonia. “Double Visions and Aesthetics of the Migratory in Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project.” Studies in the Novel 46.2 (2014): 215-235.

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Published

2020-12-17

Issue

No. 16 (2020): Transmedia Storytelling/Narrazioni Transmediali

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Reviews

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