"This Old Hate" - Nazor and Stereotypes of Italians in Croatian Shtokavian Literature Cover Image

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"This Old Hate" - Nazor and Stereotypes of Italians in Croatian Shtokavian Literature

Author(s): Inoslav Bešker
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Croatian Studies Centre
Keywords: Vladimir Nazor; Italians; colonialism; literary stereotypes

Summary/Abstract: Hetero-images of Istrian and Dalmatian Slavs created in Italian literary imperialist irredentism, as in works of D’Annunzio, stem from Venetian colonial experience resulting in carnivalesque stereotypes. Nazor retorts by creating anti-colonial stereotypes, mainly inspired by Šenoa; he juxtaposes ‘orientalism’ and ‘slavism’, opposes Italian and ‘Roman’ national myth to Slavic myth.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 031-048
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Croatian