ДУБРОВАЧКА КЊИЖЕВНОСТ И „ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСТВО“ ПАВЛА ПОПОВИЋА
THE LITERATURE OF DUBROVNIK AND “YUGOSLAVISM” OF PAVLE POPOVIC

Summary/Abstract: Pavle Popovic’s conception of “Yugoslav” literature was made by inclusion of certain elements of the Serbian literary corpus in the integral system of Yugoslav literature and culture. The literature of Dubrovnik is an example of how this adjustment was not natural or smooth, but carried out with a certain strain to find scholarly arguments for the ideological and political legalization of the new cultural model. The study of Popovic’s histories of literature (The Yugoslav Literature) and published papers (Yugoslav Literature as an Entity, An Essay about the Yugoslav Literature), in which he propagates the idea of Yugoslav cultural identity, reveals the discrepancies between declarative and fundamental perception of the Dubrovnik literature. The analysis of Popovic’s attitudes towards the identity of the Dubrovnik literature shows that he had never fundamentally given up the standing - outlined in the Review of the Serbian Literature - that the Dubrovnik literature is a historic occurrence that, narrowly interpreted, “can be claimed Serbian as much as it can be claimed Croatian”.

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