The Trend of Dystopia in Contemporary Croatian Prose Cover Image

Trend distopijskog u suvremenoj Hrvatskoj Prozi
The Trend of Dystopia in Contemporary Croatian Prose

Author(s): Igor Gajin
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Croatian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera, Osijek
Keywords: transition; neoliberal capitalism; fantastic; (dys)topia; criticism;

Summary/Abstract: In contemporary Croatian prose from 2010 to the present day, there has been an abundant series of novels with dystopian content that has introduced, so to speak, a new genre in the Croatian literary tradition, since in the diachrony of this national literature the dystopian themes have barely been represented. The paper intends to construe the cultural context of the cause of this phenomenon and point to the link in the structure of feelings formed by the processes of transition, globalization and neoliberal capitalism with the manifestation of the intensification of the dystopian genre as a motivated discursive manoeuvre by which social criticism is moved from the present “realistic prose” to “fantasy” imaginings of the future.

  • Issue Year: 2/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 41-58
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Croatian