Writing After Srebrenica: The Grammar of Grief and the Ethics of Testimonial Representation

This paper examines testimonial literature emerging from the Srebrenica genocide as a crucial site of ethical witnessing, moral resistance and memory-making. Drawing on survivor-authored memoirs and essays, it explores how trauma is transformed into language through a grammar of grief: a fragmented, hesitant mode of expression that articulates loss and survival without resolving suffering into narrative closure. Situating these texts within debates on testimony, memory and post-atrocity ethics, the paper shows how narration functions not only as personal survival but also as intervention in co