Slavenka Drakulić, Author at Public Seminar

Migration

Boy Number 84

October 19, 2020 • by Slavenka Drakulić

This is a photo of one of the children saved from the Jasenovac death camp in Croatia in 1942. Number 84 is already marked by hunger and negligence, beyond salvation. But who were these children? They were Serbian children from villages in Croatia whose parents, civilians, were killed by Croatian forces called ...

#MeToo East and West

A matter of history and conditioning

February 4, 2018 • by Slavenka Drakulić

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar has reposted this week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's achievements ...

Once Upon a Time in 1989

How the West is now learning the hard lessons of the East

August 30, 2017 • by Slavenka Drakulić

In the first of a series of articles from the landmark 50th edition of Transit (to be published in September), author Slavenka Drakulić casts a rueful glance over the expectations -- some fulfilled, many frustrated -- of the generations that have lived through the changes since 1989. I imagine a cosy ...

Slavenka Drakulić

Boy Number 84

#MeToo East and West

A matter of history and conditioning

Once Upon a Time in 1989

How the West is now learning the hard lessons of the East

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