Konfliktni spomini in stereotipne podobe Italijanov v slovenski kolektivni zavesti: primer slovenske tržaške književnosti
Conflicting memories and stereotypical images of Italians in the Slovenian collective perception: The case of Slovenian literature from Trieste

Summary/Abstract: Following from a historical review and analysis of selected cases, the article aims to determine the historical origins of stereotypical perceptions of Italians among the Slovenian nation. The author reflects on the form of these stereotypes, their temporal continuity and the impact of the specific socio-cultural and political context on their formation. Despite the numerical smallness and political weakness of Slovenians from 1848 onwards, stereotypes of the Italian nation in the Slovenian consciousness have often been explicitly underestimating, mocking and degrading. These characteristics can be ascribed to the expansionist ideology and aggressive politics expressed towards the Slovenian nation and its territory in the past. Nevertheless, they became extremely intolerant and even hostile in the independent Republic of Slovenia, which is based on democratic principle of the freedom of speech and declaratively settled relations with the Republic of Italy, whose national minority forms a constitutionally recognised part of the Slovenian state.

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