This work discusses the problematic of misplaced identities in the novel Canzone di guerra by the Croatian novelist Daša Drndić. The novel, which through various discursive procedures analyses the formation and dismissal of identities, depicts a (pseudo)autobiographical experience of emigration, pervaded by heterogeneous voices of expatriatos from former Yugoslavia. Aided with a review of crucial events from the authors life, their placement in a broader social context, using articles on the topic of contemporary theories of identity and essays arguing the question of national identity with references to personal experience of exile, I herein find that misplaced identities manifest themselves most clearly on the autobiographical level and by means of poliphony which voices yugoslavian émigrés, whos motives for departure stem from the nationalistically oriented policies of some of the newly-formed countries on the territory of former Yugoslavia. Thus the concept of persistently changing identity is conveyed through form and style of the novel; their fragmentary and discontinued structure expresses how unwholesome and torn can be a life of an exiled individual.
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