Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15291/SIC/2.6.LC.4

Téa Obreht’s Transnational Disremembering within the Mythical Realism of The Tiger’s Wife

Selma Raljević ; Džemal Bijedić University of Mostar

Abstract

This paper discusses Téa Obreht's 2010 novel The Tiger's Wife within the context of transmigrations and post-national conceptions of both the real and mythical translocality. Through analysis of Obreht’s discourse of disremembering, which is in Aleksandar Hemon’s definition a recognition of one’s own experience under the new narrative, the paper will explore the transnational dimensions of the Slavic-American identity of The Tiger’s Wife. The aim of this paper is to focus on the new understanding of transnational relationality as well as on a reconception of reality that disremembers Obreht’s or, on a larger scale, human experience within the mythical realism of The Tiger’s Wife.

Keywords

transnationalism; the Slavic-American identity; disremembering; Aleksandar Hemon; Téa Obreht; The Tiger’s Wife; mythical realism

Hrčak ID:

171963

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/171963

Publication date:

6.6.2016.

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