Nonalignment and Decolonial Imagination: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South
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Speakers
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Upcoming Event:
Nonalignment and Decolonial Imagination: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South
by
Nataša Kovačević
Professor, Eastern Michigan University
Details:
Monday, January 12, 2026
4:00-6:00 PM
Alumni Hall Room 404
121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
Nataša Kovačević is professor of postcolonial and global literature at Eastern Michigan University. Her ongoing research concerns the literature and cinema of migration to the European Union; global socialism; and anticolonial internationalism during the Cold War. Her essays have appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Critique, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, and a number of edited collections. She is the author of Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe’s Borderline Civilization (Routledge, 2008), Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and most recently, Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs (Northwestern University Press, 2025), which reconstructs the forgotten literary and cultural history of the Non-Aligned Movement.
