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The House as Image in Three Poems by Dragica Rajčić

Abstract

Published in German, in 2000, the collection of poems Post Bellum written by Dragica Rajčić concerns war memories in the Balkans and the principle of otherness experienced by the lyrical I. This article discusses three poems from this collection: “suisse like home”, “Hunderste gedicht ohne trenen” and “Ein Haus, nirgends”. Focusing on the representation of home, this article begins with a theoretical discussion on the concept of home and goes on to discuss the poems and their home images, interested, above all, in the matter of belongingness.

Keywords:
Dragica Rajčić; home; Post Bellum; belongingness

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