Roguish Self-Fashioning and Questing in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything”
This paper examines self-fashioning in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything,” a story about a Sarajevo teenager’s journey through ex-Yugoslavia to the Slovenian town of Murska Sobota. His aim? “[T]o buy a freezer chest for my family” (39). While in transit, the first-person narrator imagines himself a rog...
Main Author: | Jason Blake |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Lodz University Press
2019-11-01
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Series: | Text Matters |
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Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/5883 |
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