Description

Forgotten Future documents and critically evaluates contemporary poetry within the dynamic field of cultural production in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the late 1980s. Its context spans three historico-political phases: the cusp on which socialism was already losing its primacy and ethno-nationalism was gaining dominance; the subsequent collapse of Yugoslavia and the ensuing war led by ethno-nationalist elites; and the period of the aftermath of war - the so-called "post-war transition." This new approach to thinking about poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina focuses on alternative cultural practices, which have articulated a more equitable organization of Bosnian society. Such practices have the capacity not only to tell us how un-free we are, but also to shift the criteria of possibility of our freedom towards a more hopeful politics. Forgotten Future sheds scholarly light on the terror of inequality, the solidarity of unbridled life, relevant knowledge production, and material memories of war and genocide.