Guerra y exilio en Aleksandar Hemon's The Question of Bruno (2000)

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José R. Ibáñez Ibáñez

Abstract

The aim of this paper is threefold. First, it seeks to assess the modes of storytelling seen in
the stories by Aleksandar Hemon, a Bosnian émigré, who has become an outstanding
representative of the new voices in the American literary arena. Second, it assesses
Hemon’s critique of current storytelling in America in view of the path undertaken by
many novice writers, who long for immediate success as they put into practice the
thematic and structural standardization imposed by national literary reviews. Hemon
believes that, by doing so, current American storytelling, on the one hand, defies its
solitary nature –as expounded in Frank O’Connor’s The Lonely Voice– and, on the other, it
fails to respond to a changing world, “the world of refugees and immigrants and
spectacular economic disparity”. Bearing this notion in mind, three of Hemon’s most
representative narrations, published in his debut volume The Question of Bruno, are
analyzed.

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Literatura

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Guerra y exilio en Aleksandar Hemon’s The Question of Bruno (2000). (2015). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 1, 221-234. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2015.4147