THE AUDACITY OF DESPAIR: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEKSANDAR HEMON

THE AUDACITY OF DESPAIR: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEKSANDAR HEMON

Hemon is the author of three novels-Nowhere Man (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Lazarus Project (2008), a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award; and the just-published The Making of Zombie Wars (2015)-as well as two c...

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Veröffentlicht in:Studies in the novel 2015-07, Vol.47 (2), p.246-266
Hauptverfasser: BOSWELL, TIMOTHY, HEMON, ALEKSANDAR
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
American literature
Bilingualism
Fiction
Hemon, Aleksandar (1964- )
INTERVIEW
Language
Language culture relationship
Literature
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Multilingualism
Novels
Publishing industry
Space
Storytelling
Writers
Writing
Written narratives
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Zusammenfassung:Hemon is the author of three novels-Nowhere Man (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Lazarus Project (2008), a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award; and the just-published The Making of Zombie Wars (2015)-as well as two collections of short stories (The Question of Bruno [2000], Love and Obstacles [2009]) and a collection of essays (The Book of My Lives [2013]). For writers such as yourself who do occupy this overlapping space created by multiple languages and multiple cultures- and the list of contemporary writers who occupy similar spaces is fairly long, as we live in an increasingly mobile and multicultural world-what would you say are the particular challenges or opportunities inherent to this space that is created by these overlapping and intersecting languages and cultures? ALEKSANDAR HEMON:
ISSN:0039-3827
1934-1512
1934-1512
DOI:10.1353/sdn.2015.0031