EUROPEAN ROADS AND CROSSROADS IN DRAGAN VELIKIĆ’S NOVEL RUSSIAN WINDOW
Keywords:
identity, traveling, nomadic subject, center, peripheryAbstract
In his narrative and essayistic oeuvre, Dragan Velikić often deals with the issues of perception and acceptance of the Other, as well as the problem of identity, which turned out to be crucial for contemporary literature and theory. In his novel Russian Window, Velikić shapes a nomadic character, Rudi Stupar, and consistently presents the processuality of his identity. Rudi can be defined as a nomadic subject in every aspect, being deterritorialized, i.e. being the one who does not hold down one particular space and one perspective nor subjects himself to the authoritarian system of belief, but opens up to various kinds of difference and alterity.
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