Poetika buke: Antologija slavonskog ratnog pisma
The Poetics of Noise is a comprehensive anthology edited by Goran Rem, a literary historian and poet from Osijek. The book brings together works by 105 Slavonian authors written during the Homeland War (1991–1995), mainly in Slavonia and Baranja.
Rem, with the title "poetics of noise", designates the heterogeneous, chaotic, raw and loud production of war text - not uniformly heroic, but full of fear, resistance, trauma, irony and intimate voices of civilians, intellectuals and marginalized people. The anthology is chronologically and thematically structured, with an introductory study by Rem that analyzes genres, motives (patriotism, loss, resistance, silence) and the function of writing as a "private gesture" in siege and shelling.
In the sequence of about a hundred authors, with telegram-like, Rem-designed biographical notes about them, the reader is clearly and energetically asked to notice the connection between two forms of accumulating cultural war energy: that sophisticated war documentary that was published immediately when the war was happening and that other that was written and thought after the war ended. In doing so, the anthology "Poetics of noise" sets a framework for all forms of reading and interpreting the roles of both media warriors.
This is a continuation of Róma's earlier monograph "Slavonsko ratno pismo" (1997) – a broader selection that shows how Slavonia, the hardest-hit region, responded to violence through text. The book was awarded the Josip and Ivan Kozarac Award (2011), appreciated as a key document of regional war literature and the identity grammar of space – important for understanding how the "noise" of words became resistance to oblivion and silence.
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