Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims
of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten,
are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian
fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of the past,
re-remembering the cruelty of the twentieth century, reinterpreting
the heroic role of the Partisans and the extraordinary measures
taken to defend Yugoslavia's recently won independence and
socialist revolution. Their uncanny and ghostly imagery challenges
the assumptions of the master discourse promoted by the country's
orthodox communist authorities and questions the historical roots
of social and cultural identities. The instability of this period
of transition is deepened during the wars of the 1990s, when
authors turn from the memory of past violence to face the ferocious
brutality of new conflicts. The haunting evocations in their work
continue to articulate fresh uncertainties as the trappings of
modern civilization are stripped away and replaced by the
destructive logic of civil war. The past returns once more with
renewed energy in the struggle to make sense of a vastly changed
world.
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