Prvi svjetski rat i hrvatska autobiografska književnost (Stanje, naznake i mogućnosti istraživanja)
The First World War and the Croatian Autobiographical Literature (Research Status, Indications and Possibilities)

Author(s): Filip Hameršak
Subject(s): Military history, Croatian Literature, Methodology and research technology, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Theory of Literature
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Austria-Hungary; Yugoslavia; Croatia; First World War; autobiography; methodology; literary theory;
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this introductory article is a consideration of options that autobiographical sources can offer to historiographical study of the First World War. Accordingly, the first chapter is a chronological overview of the historical works on the First World War published in Croatia and – to a lesser degree – in the whole region, which generally indicates that incorporated themes, putting aside methodological innovation, and partly even their conclusions have directly reflected political and social turbulences from 1918 to 1991. Apart from including larger number of researchers and having better material conditions, British, French, American, German and Australian post-1918 historiographies have generally been developed with significantly more autonomy and without neglecting methodological considerations, especially those concerning auto-biographical sources. The second chapter is therefore an attempt to fill – at least in the short lines – this gap in Croatian historiography, while the third is interested in the not always harmonious touch between historiography and literary theory. The fourth chapter presents a draft of relevant Croatian autobiographical literary corpus, a description of its general features, and an outline of the answers to some of the possible research questions.

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