PERSONAL NAMES AND CURSE REGISTERING IN MILJENKO JERGOVIĆ’S SHORT STORIES COLLECTION INŠALLAH MADONA, INŠALLAH Cover Image

OSOBNA IMENA I UPISIVANJE PROKLETSTVA U ZBIRCI PRIČA INŠALLAH MADONA, INŠALLAH MILJENKA JERGOVIĆA
PERSONAL NAMES AND CURSE REGISTERING IN MILJENKO JERGOVIĆ’S SHORT STORIES COLLECTION INŠALLAH MADONA, INŠALLAH

Author(s): Nebojša Lujanović
Subject(s): Croatian Literature
Published by: Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu
Keywords: Name; symbol; code; decoding; curse; heritage;

Summary/Abstract: Starting with basic postulates of semiotics, interesting possible interpretations of personal names in Miljenko Jergovic’s stories are revealed to us. Inside a mode of discourse presented as constant conflict and change in the representation of meaning, these names are to understood as stable carriers of meaning in which the important motif of the curse occurs. The curse appears as the only constant in Jergovic’s chaotic world of hybrid identities and insolvable conflict.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 211-220
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian