@article{intel:/content/journals/10.1386/maska_00110_3, author = "Bakić, Asja", title = "Yugofuturism as a Trap", journal= "Maska", year = "2022", volume = "37", number = "209-210", pages = "10-18", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1386/maska_00110_3", url = "https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/maska_00110_3", publisher = "Intellect", issn = "2050-957X", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "I used a short surrealist story by French author Gisèle Prassinos, The Isle of Eternal Fungus, along with a series of Yugoslav journalistic books and texts (mostly published in the 1970s and 1980s) to define Yugofuturism as a utopian moment in the past of the SFRY that cannot be repeated. After its disintegration, it became fashionable to interpret Yugoslavia from an ahistorical perspective: Yugofuturism loses its position in time and becomes a concept, an idea. But if we go back enough in our study of literature, it is clear that Yugofuturism was a very concrete era that lasted a relatively short time. After the Communists’ initial futurist inspiration ran out, Yugoslav society turned from the initial communist utopia into a socialist grotesque. The essay discusses this disintegration.", }