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Interrogating a border space in the chapter “Istria as Heterotopia: Migration, Space, and Translation at the Ends of Europe,” Longinović employs Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, a perfect symptom of the way spatial notions are affected by the multiplicity of possible meanings. In the context of the looming border dispute between communist Yugoslavia and capitalist Italy, the pre-historic relationship to the land as soil and labour invoked by Istrian-born Italian author Fulvio Tomizza coexists in the heterotopic zone of the Balkans in a language of territorial identity requiring no words at all. The space of violence and war is mirrored as a discourse requiring no overt verbal signs but reverting to sounds and gestures proper to the Symbolic limits of the communal Imaginary. |
