The project studies cultural representations of old age, aging, and care in narratives from former Yugoslavia and its successor states, taking 1989 as a symbolic watershed. The aim is a comparative synchronic and a diachronic inquiry into the radical shifts of ideas about old age, from revered phase of life to burden, brought about by violent conflict, ideological transformation, war, mass migration, poverty, transition to market economy etc. in the 1990s (Kaser 2021). The basis for a planned monograph will be a literary-historical analysis of literature, with other art forms as comparative
horizon in majority and minority (e.g. Romanian, Albanian, Hungarian) Yugoslav languages; and conducted semi-structured narrative interviews with writers from the region.