Borders within Borders: A New Regionalism in Contemporary Croatian Literature Cover Image

Granice wewnątrz granic. Nowy regionalizm we współczesnej literaturze chorwackiej
Borders within Borders: A New Regionalism in Contemporary Croatian Literature

Author(s): Anna Boguska
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), Comparative Study of Literature, Croatian Literature
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Croatian literature; The New Regionalism; borderland;

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at a synthetic presentation of Croatian literature researchers’ reflection about regionalism in the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author observes that there is a tendency to see Croatian literature as one that produces two different models of texts in terms of poetics and philosophy – the northern, which is “Central European,” and the southern, which is “Mediterranean.” She then examines the coherence of the “ideal types” delineated by researches according to the themes and literary devices utilised, based on two short stories from 2006, by writers one of whom is from the northern and the other – from the southern part of the country.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 541-564
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish