The Question of Montenegrin Guilt in Vojislav Pejović's The Life and Death of Milan Junak and Ognjen Spahić's Under Both Suns.
The article explores the questions of responsibility and guilt in two novels by contemporary Montenegrin authors. Vojislav Pejović's The Life and Death of Milan Junak (2008) and Ognjen Spahić's Under Both Suns (2020) problematize the active role of Montenegro in the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s and sh...
| Publicado en: | Slavonica Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 80 - 99 |
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Nov2023
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