A Rijeka Morning

Brigitte le Normand

A Rijeka Morning

Brigitte le Normand

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Abstract

I wrote this text while thinking about how to narrate the life of a port city, Rijeka,
Yugoslavia’s most important port, and its multifaceted and multiscalar connections to other places—specifically, how to think about the consequences of these connections for the city as a space and for its inhabitants understanding of their place in the world. While none of the characters depicted actually
existed, the trajectories, ideas, conflicts, and situations described are documented in the archival record for the 1950s and 1960s. Writing this fictional narrative allows me to try out one way of talking about the complexities of port cities and the networks in which they are embedded.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Stories We Tell
Subtitle of host publication	Creative Nonfiction Accounts of Our Research
Editors	Elsje Fourie, Christin Höne
Place of Publication	Maastricht
Publisher	Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Pages	37-41
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9789464695427
ISBN (Print)	9789403844145, 9789403836041
Publication status	Published - 30 Oct 2023

Keywords

creative non-fiction
humanities
social sciences
anthology
doing academic research
stories

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