Фолклор као вид идеолошког моделовања читаоца. Пионирска трилогија Бранка Ћопића
Folklore as a Type of Ideological Modelling of Readers. Branko Ćopić’s Pioneer Trilogy

Summary/Abstract: The folklore of the National Liberation Struggle (Serb. Narodnooslobodilačka borba, NOB), as well as folklore in general, is an important part of Ćopić’s worldbuilding and value system in his Pioneer trilogy, published between 1957 and 1963. The clearly named recipients and the theme of the work (i.e., a group of children unite with adults with a “child’s heart” in fighting against injustice, joining the NOB, and the struggle for the successful completion of the harvest in the Sanica Valley) are presented as a combination of an adventure story with elements of humour, a war novel and a love story for children, and are strongly ideologically marked. This is achieved primarily through employing folklore, which, throughout the Trilogy, emphasizes the spirit of freedom, willingness to sacrifice, collective effort and the contribution to the war effort of the people as a whole. Besides the NOB folklore, traditional folklore plays a significant role in the ideological colouring of Ćopić’s work as well — namely, the segment thereof that celebrates disobedience to a foreign invader and resistance to all kinds of injustice, while completely omitting any aspect of the national and religious determination of the Other. Since the intended recipients of the work are pioneers — children born after the war — the ideological atmosphere of Ćopić’s Trilogy has an educational and pedagogical meaning and an emphasized modelling function, which is primarily mediated by humour and folklore. Nevertheless, in certain travesties of slogans and parodic aspects of the work, there is a possible hint of deviation from the ideological monolith. This is unequivocally contributed to by the potentially subversive spirit of humour that pervades all of Ćopić’s work.

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