The Documentary Turn in Post-1989 European Literature

Focusing on European literatures since 1989—a moment of political and epistemic rupture—this project, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (IP-2025-02-7801), studies documentary writing through the concepts of mimetic contract and referentiality. It examines documentary aesthetics as a key site where fact and fiction are renegotiated in response to shifting realities in contemporary Central- and Eastern-European literatures.