NEGDJE IZMEĐU: O JEZIKU SRPSKIH PISACA IZ HRVATSKE
SOMEWHERE INBETWEEN: THE LANGUAGE OF SERBIAN WRITERS FROM CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: Since 1991, Serbian citizens in the Republic of Croatia have held the status ofa national minority, and the Serbian language is categorizedas aminority language. Surprisingly, the population censuses of 2001 and 2011 have shownthat only a quarter ofCroatian Serbslisted Serbian as their mother tongue. Those censuses (as well as legal acts on minority language rights)do not reveal much about the actual language used by Croatian Serbs, but only reflect how they have listedtheir native language. This paper analyzes the language of literature written by Serbian writers from Croatia whose works were published after 1991 by the SerbianCultural Society Prosvjeta'spublication companyin the edition Mala plava biblioteka.Since their works reflect the tension between Deleuze’s and Guattari’s (1986) concept of a minorliteratureas a literature “that which a minority constructs within a major language” and the preservation of a minority language through literary production, this paper will analyze the collective and political values attributedtothe literature written bySerbian writers from Croatia.

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