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"Hurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it's the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic's writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her "the fantasy cultural studies professor you never had." In Europe in Sepia, Ugresic, ever the flâneur, wanders from the Midwest to Zuccotti Park, the Irish Aran Islands to Jerusalem's Mea Shearim, from the tristesse of Dutch housing estates to the riots of south London, charting everything from the listlessness of Central Europe to the ennui of the Low Countries. One finger on the pulse of an exhausted Europe, another in the wounds of postindustrial America, Ugresic trawls the fallout of political failure and the detritus of popular culture, mining each for revelation. Infused with compassion and melancholic doubt, Europe in Sepia centers on the disappearance of the future, the anxiety that no new utopian visions have emerged from the ruins of communism; that ours is a time of irreducible nostalgia, our surrender to pastism complete. Punctuated by the levity of Ugresic's raucous instinct for the absurd, despair has seldom been so beguiling"

O kulturi i kritici -- O ratu i poraću -- Rod u privatnoj i javnoj sferi -- Etnonacionalna politika i identiteti

Srpska i jugoslovenska istoriografija se dugo vremena i s naročitim interesovanjem bavila istraživanjem periodu Drugog svetskog rata. Međutim, istorija svakodnevnog života pod okupacijom ostala je, osim retkih radova, izvan pažnje istoričara. Poseban značaj među izvorima za istoriju ratne svakodnevice imaju svedočenja savremenika, najčešće iz pera političara, diplomata, književnika, generala, itd. Sasvim retko se dešava da svoje svedočenje o nekom periodu iznesu obični ljudi, koji prikazuju okupaciju iz perspektive tzv. "malog čoveka" i njegove svakodnevnice. Zbog toga su, između ostalog, dnevničke Beleške 1941-1944 Dragutina J. Rankovića, državnog činovnikau penziji, stanovnika Beograda, tako važan istorijski izvor.