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(Dis)Regarding History: Slavenka Drakulić’s and Dubravka Ugrešić’s Female Voices from Croatia

Author(s): Vlatka Velčić / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

My essay will explore two female writers from Croatia, Slavenka Drakulić and Dubravka Ugrešić, in the light of the context outlined above. Both women represent rare female voices that were present in Croatian (and the former Yugoslavian) public life before the 1990s. They both continued to publish through the Civil Wars and their aftermath. My essay will specifically focus on the two most recent novels of these authors, Drakulić’s “S.: A Novel about the Balkans” and Ugrešić’s “The Museum o f Unconditional Surrender”, which reveal two different strategies in the fictionalization of female voices. Drakulić’s “S.”, about a Bosnian woman who gives birth as a result of rape, focuses on and attempts to recreate a ‘testimonio of a ‘real life’ victim. In her autobiographical, experimental novel, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, Ugrešić manages not only to preserve the complexity of the women’s perspectives but also incorporates a meta-narrative of the postcolonial condition of exile.

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Świat słowiańskich bóstw i ich wpływ na dziecięcego czytelnika (na przykładzie wybranych utworow ze zbioru „Priče iz davnine” Ivany Brlić Mažuranić)

Author(s): Monika Sagało / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Ivana Brlić Mažuranić published her collection of stories for children titled „Priče iz davnine” in 1916. In this piece of work the main characters are deities known from Slavic mythology. Domaći, Stribor, Zora-djevojka or Svarožić are some of the characters that accompany people in their daily life. Some of them help people, while others subject them to trials, but first of all, they allow people to discover the truth about themselves and become happy. Reading such stories young readers can find out what rules they should follow their lives. Furthermore, pieces of work like the one presented herein can help to develop people’s interest in ancient beliefs and their national culture.

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Poezija - Mirjana Miljković

Author(s): Mirjana Miljković / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Collection of poems by Mirjana Miljković ("Entropija"; "Feminizam"; "Genetski modificiran organizam"; "Klasa A"; "Loza"; "Utekla sam"; "Odrana"; "Odrastnici"; "Pjesnikinja s posebnima potrebama"; "Polje moći"; "Svuci se, Sestro Evina"; "Drugarice nisu posustale"; "Izložba"; "Ona ima okruglo oko ribe"; "Kolodvor"; "T")

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Poezija - Monika Herceg

Author(s): Monika Herceg / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Collection of poetry by Monika Herceg ("Marijin monolog za veneru tijekom nebeske kave"; "Tijelo"; "Kvantna pepeljuga"; "Ana Magaš useljava u zvijezdu nakon ubojstva muža zlostavljača u samoodbrani"; "Reinkarnacija Jyoti Singh pije kavu kraj mene i upozorava me na promatrača iz kojeg može izrasti šipka"; "Addu Lovelace izjeda računalna logika, kasnije Ada izjeda Turinga"; "Maryam Mirzakhani tri beskonačnosti slaže na kruh uz sir i majonezu"

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Poezija - Luka Antić

Author(s): Luka Antić / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Poetry by Luka Antić ("Plesala je jedno ljeto"; "Sto godina samoće"; "Primitivac"; "Tako je govorio Zaramustra"; "Daljina")

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Poezija - Lara Mitraković

Author(s): Lara Mitraković / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Poetry by Lara Mitraković ("Dva puta za jug"; "Oslobod(a)"; "Prodaju kestenje, a nije jesen")

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Hrvatski problem s regionalizmom

Author(s): Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Due to its geographic position and historical circumstances, Croatia is a country of deep regional differences. In this paper I try to remind the reader, on the one hand, of the inevitability of the regional perspective in approaching certain periods and, on the other hand, to find the answer to why regionalism can appear as an unpleasant methodology (and a fact?). I will refer to the terms related to regional narrative: geopoetics, regiopoetics, locality, glocality, homeland, boundaries, and so on, as well as the interrelationship of regional discourse with a discourse of memory and identity. The new regionalism (seems to me ‒ insufficiently present in Croatian literary research) as a part of cultural geography and cultural-anthropological research in cultural texts, explores the record of spatial experience and representation of space (region), as well as traces of action in the opposite direction: how a text of literature/culture influences the local context.

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Psovka i smijeh

Author(s): Ivana Mikulić / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

The paper examines the relationship between two marginal phenomena in the Croatian literatury studies, swearing and laughter. Swearing is a speech genre determined by the obscene and vulgar expressions associated with sex organs or anal bodily area contextualized in the so-called negative values of contemporary culture. On the other hand, laughter is the main point of the comedy that is lower positioned and very often neglected in the hierarchy of genres. However, swearing in Bakhtin’s concept of grotesque realism is an affirmative and positive phenomenon that has contributed to the creation of a free carnival atmosphere and other, material bodily, ridiculous aspect of the world. For a long time Croatian comedies of the second half of the 17th century (smješnice) were on the verge of literary history studies. In this paper we are primarily interested in smješnice because they belong to the carnival type of ceremonial-representational forms of the culture of folk humor, with swearing as its integral part. The study analyses swearing in smješnice considering the type (swear words referring to sex and sexuality, insult), the direction of swearing (speaker, listener, third person, inanimate matter, animals) and the domain from which metaphorically-insulting words are taken (body parts, animals, ethnic groups, confessions, inanimate matter, human qualities…). Thus, different types of swear words provide an insight into the literary representation of everyday life in premodern Dubrovnik.

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Lirska dikcija Severove publicistike

Author(s): Krešimir Bagić / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Towards the end of 1974 and during 1975, in Zagreb-based cultural biweekly Oko (The Eye), Josip Sever publishes 15 supplements in the section under the headline “What did Josip Sever see“. Supplements are very diverse in themes as well as in genre and style. What connects them are a unique author’s optics and a surprising introduction of abundance of discourse exclusivities which are characteristic for lyrical speech in literary journalism context. This article singles out and describes key characteristics of the expressions from Sever’s texts and tries to interpret the sense of their edginess.

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Dvije autobiografije u stihovima

Author(s): Sanja Grakalić Plenković / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Although verses as a form are rarely chosen by autobiographers, the history of Croatian autobiography shows that some writers have had the inclination towards writing autobiographies in verses. The form of a poem can be linked with the beginnings of writing autobiographical texts and with the autobiographical discourse in the works of Croatian writers. Even though it has not been in the focus of interest of autobiographical theory, the autobiographical elements can be found in the period spanning from the 15th- and 16th-century Croatian poetry in the works of the Croatian Latinists up to the present time which represents the golden period of autobiographic writing. Focusing on the autobiographers’ inclination to write in verse (from heterogenous autobiographies, where verses are incorporated into the text itself, to autobiographies poems), this paper shows the marginal place that the form of a poem occupies in the field of researching and defining autobiography as a genre. The fact has been corroborated by providing an outline of verses in autobiographies and autobiographies in verses throughout the history of Croatian literature. Special attention is given to two autobiographies-poems, written by two contemporary writers of Croatian Moderna ‒ Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (Autoportrait from Rogaška Slatina; 1932) and Vladimir Nazor (Autobiography; 1927). Having in common the form and some themes and motifs (such as looking back at their lives, the author, the narrator and the main character being one and the same person, retrospective perspective), these two autobiographies show how placing emphasis on intimate elements, the form of a poem can be used to write an autobiography. Without putting into question the theme, the place of the narrator/poet in telling about or taking attitude towards the reality or experiences lived, factographic elements which dominate the early 20th century autobiographies, here are largely overshadowed by the more personal and emotional elements.

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Zagorac kao lik periferije u kontekstu kajkavske dopreporodne svjetovne književnosti i hrvatskoga književnog kanona 20. stoljeća

Author(s): Kristina Jug / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Kajkavian literature of the pre-Illyrian movement was often seen as a less valuable segment of national literature and for that reason was already placed in a peripheral literary phenomenon. That literature often was underestimated because of religious character, utilitarianism and didactics. In the 20th century, when the dialectical literature emerged, Kajkavian literature was recognised as equal in Croatian literature. The main purpose of the paper is the analysis of peripheral literary characters who were appearing in the Enlightenment period in Kajkavian literature at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. In that period secular topics were included in the Kajkavian literature and reached its culmination, especially in the drama. The paper will explore which literature types are represented by these literary characters and which civic values they represent. The analysis will cover several titles from the secular Kajkavian prose and drama from the late 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, a work entitled Adolf iliti kakvi su ljudi by Jakob Lovrenčić and Kajkavian drama adaptations performed on the stage of the school theatre at Kaptol Roman-Catholic Preparatory. The Illyrian movement forcefully and deliberately stopped Kajkavian literary production. Immediately after the Illyrian movement Kajkavian language was used to characterize a type of literary character whose purpose was mocking and creating a comic effect. The work will explore at which moment the literary characters of Kajkavian peripheries become inspirational to Croatian writers as representatives of a certain milieu and worldview. Particularly interesting will be the analysis of literary characters from the collection of stories Croatian God Mars by Miroslav Krleža and the paper will answer the question on the universal values of the literary characters of Kajkavian periphery and their purpose in the national literature.

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Periferni likovi u romanu „U registraturi” Ante Kovačića

Author(s): Marijana Terić / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

In this paper, the author examines a work of one of the most significant Croatian literary writers, Ante Kovačić, whose novel U registraturi (In the Registry Office) is considered by many literary critics and theoreticians to be the best writing of Croatian realism. It is an author who was not understood at the time when his work appeared, which is why the text was published in the form of a novel with a twenty-three year delay. Nonlinear composition of the text, elements of fantasy literature and innovative literary process in creating a fabula and sujet course of events confused literary critics as well as readership, which points to the fact that Ante Kovačić was treated for a long time as a peripheral author. In this narrative text, the misery and helplessness of peasants and their revolt against their feudal lords in Croatia are described, therefore the object of our analysis will be the characterisation of figures from various layers of society, with a particular focus on the “peripheral characters” of Kovačić’s prose. Using the term “peripheral characters” we will attempt to bring close those characters of subjugated peasants in relation to the feudal-capitalist social layer and thereby emphasise their role in the novel in relation to their fate. Unlike the characters of the peasants – Ivica Kičmanović (whom the social order turns into a lackey and scoundrel); Jožica Zgubidan (the personification of a poor person from Zagorje), Anica (a patriarchal girl with an angelic face); Miha; Perica; the neighbouring Kanoniks; and the Medonjićes – Kovačić brings us harsh, drastic images of moral vacillations in the city in which figures, distorted into caricatures, dominate. By contrasting the rural environment with the city life, the author is writing an “epopee of the village and city” in which the “peripheral characters” become tragic ones. These characters are the carriers of elements of “fantastic realism,” and their function is to show all the depravities of society and to announce the phenomenon of the innovative processes of narration familiar to authors of the modern literature. Finally, we come to the conclusion that Ante Kovačić made a step forward in relation to the generation of realists, with the peripheral position of his creation disappearing with the emergence of modern literary achievements, which ultimately gives the author and his work a polished place in Croatian literature.

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Periferno kao izbor u romanu „Mirisi, zlato i tamjan” Slobodana Novaka

Author(s): Andrijana Nikolić / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

In this paper we will analyze the personal choice of individuals, who chose peripheral life on the island which is their prison and their freedom at the same time. Though eager to do so, the protagonists of the novel, Mali and Draga, do not escape from the island. They are essentially prisoners of their own choice, from which they apparently try to escape, not escaping only from responsibilities and obligations that tie them to the island, that is, to nurturing a handicapped old women Madonna. In self-deprivation and oppression satisfying Madonna’s wishes, Mali voluntarily fulfills her desires, aware of the nonsense in which he dives, conscious of alienation, which he cannot resist. Although, at one point, Mali will pronounce all of his own disappointment, the reader will not accept it as the main hero’s awareness about the failure of life but she/he will rather “involve” in a postmodernist way in author’s thinking and his attitude towards the main character. The essence of the psychological lies not in the fact that the writer played with the possibility of rejecting the protagonist, but, on the contrary, enabled him to choose his path, which led him to the island, on which he remains. The bareness of life was reduced by the literary process to the final outcome of the earthly existence. Without coercion or request, just by rough realistic method, the writer points to the masculinity of the main character, who is firm, does not give up on his ideals, but at the same time remains a prisoner of his habits. With the abundance of biblical motifs and symbols, Slobodan Novak created the hero of the novel who grows out of the narrative events and who is not uniform, but in the given situations he changes, resisting, retreating or adjusting. In the atmosphere of the stagnant island an ironic and scathing prose was made, whose main protagonists accepted peripherality as a habit.

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Crni Popaj Štefa Bartolića kao ostvarenje moralne periferije

Author(s): Pavel Pilch / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

This text deals with the interpretation of the comic character Crni Popaj (Black Popeye) written and drawn by Štef Bartolić. We find the controversial personality of this fictional abuser as somewhat of a metaphor for the extreme conception of freedom, which, despite its disgusting nature, speaks more to our moral rules than laws and ethical principles. Phenomena such as drugs, sexual abuse and violence within our metaphorical thinking are understood as a distorted mirror that, directed toward our daily lives, reveals the true nature of man who has not yet emerged from the animal universe.

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Sida Košutić’s Christian Mysticism – on the Periphery of the Canon of National Literature

Author(s): Kornelija Kuvač-Levačić / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The research shows several key causes of the reception and literary-historical periphery of the rich literary oeuvre of the Croatian poet, essayist, storyteller and author of one drama, Sida Košutić. While much of the research to date has cited the ideological and world-view causes of Sida Košutić’s marginal position in the canon of national literature, the writer’s expression of the unspeakable at the key of the Christian mystical experience is predominantly explored here. Thus, this research fits in with the contemporary interest in the philosophy of language and literary theory in the problem of the expression of the unspeakable (L. Wittgenstein, K. Jaspers, J. Derrida, M. Sells, etc.). The prominent elements of mystical discourse in the writer’s lyrical expression are analyzed on the example of a poem (“Ime tvoje sveti se”) which brings the majoritiy of poetic techniques from the entire collection Vjerenička žetva. Mystical hermeticism is also one of the possible causes of the peripheral status of Sida Košutić’s work. However, if the interpretation includes postmodern approach to language, it can be concluded that the poetic expression goes beyond the semantic atomism (the unspeakable refers to different experiences, conditions and realities), opposing representationalism and referentialism language model. Sida Košutić’s critical subject finds its legitimacy in Christian mysticism. The work of this writer can be equally included in the poetic guidelines of Croatian modern literature of the first half of the 20th century, thus undermining the dominant notions of the center and periphery defined by the national literary canon.

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Proces integracije lokalne zadarske sastavnice hrvatske književnosti u središnju nacionalnu književnost – od (pred)romantizma do moderne

Author(s): Zvjezdana Rados / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

The paper will analyze Zadar’s components of Croatian literature in the period from 1840s until the first decade of the 20th century, marked by nationalintegrative processes and forming a modern national identity. The research object will be the specifics of the development of that part of Croatian literature as well as its relations to literary and historical processes in the center, the mainstream, of national literature – from national revival movements or the period of preromanticism and romanticism, through pre-realism and realism to the period of moderna and stronger integration of Zadar’s (provincial, Dalmatian) segment into central, national Croatian literature. Considerable attention will be paid to the processes of mutual permeating, accepting and rejecting, affirming and negating of Zadar’s periphery, one of the most important peripheries of the Croatian literary canon, and its national center, Zagreb’s mainstream. This issue will be presented through paradigmatic writers and journals that marked key periods of Croatian linguistic and literary homogenization: in the period of (pre)romanticism, during 1840s, this implies the journal Zora dalmatinska and paradigmatic personalities of the literary circle formed around that revival journal (Šime Starčević and Petar Preradović, even Ana Vidović); in the period of folk-enlightenment (pre)realism, from the sixties to the end of the eighties, this includes paradigmatic personality of the Croatian National Revival in Dalmatia – politician and writer Mihovil Pavlinović, as well as Iskra journal and its editor Nikola Šimić (a writer who created a specific peripheral genre of folk stories from rural life); in the time of disintegration of realism and turning towards modernist styles this implies the initiator of Croatian modern literary criticism Jakša Čedomil and the prominent names of the Croatian literary canon in the period of moderna – Ivo Vojnović, Vladimir Nazor and Milan Begović, as well as Lovor magazine of Milutin Cihlar Nehajev.

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Imota ili „život na rubu“ u odabranim djelima Petra Gudelja

Author(s): Ivana Čagalj / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

The paper presents the region of Imotska Krajina, or the so-called Imota, as a mythical homeland in selected poetry and prose works by Petar Gudelj. The concept of periphery will be considered, on the one hand, in terms of the geographic position of the mentioned area and its social and political “life on the edge” as well as in terms of its reflection in literary works while, on the other hand, the periphery will be recognized in the long-term Gudelj’s marginalization on the Croatian literary scene and in the elements of his poetics; “self-generation,” but also relying on tradition and oral literature. The analysis will show how the controversies and the contrast of the karst periphery make a fertile ground for (re)-building (literary) identity.

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O osnovnim poetičkim postulatima stvaralaštva Mirka Kovača

Author(s): Tatjana Đurišić-Bečanović / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

Mirko Kovač je jedan od najistaknutijih predstavnika postmoderne književnosti na južnoslovenskom semiotičkom prostoru, koji je iza sebe ostavio izuzetno obiman i žanrovski razuđen stvaralački opus. Budući da se radi o međunarodno priznatom piscu, čije je stvaralaštvo više puta nagrađivano i od književne kritike hvaljeno, izuzetno je značajna pojava ovog Zbornika naučnih radova koji će u znatnoj mjeri rasvijetliti Kovačevu hermetičnu poetiku.

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Mechanizmy władzy: wykluczenie, kontrola, kara. Dystopia w najnowszej literaturze chorwackiej

Author(s): Aleksandra Wojtaszek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The topic of this paper is dystopia, a genre hitherto secondary in Croatian prose, which gained considerable popularity in the last few years. The paper presents an overview of theoretical consideration about the conception of utopia and dystopia. The chosen novels are considered in the context of classic worldwide dystopian prose and analysed through category of exclusion, control and punishment, interpreted in accordance with philosophy of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, with the aim to show mechanisms of power in dystopian society. This provides answers to the questions about which problems are noticeable in the modern society and what negative consequences portraiture writers. Further, the paper also answers why dystopia has become a popular genre among authors who have been, until now, mostly inclined to criticize reality through a mimetic model.

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Drveni most na hrastovim stupovima (roman Veliki hrast Vlade Andrilovića kao polazište priče osobne povijesti)

Author(s): Julijana Matanović / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Through a family story divided into three parts, the novel of Vlado Andrilović Veliki hrast (1989) presents the Slavonian history. The proud tree represents the answer to the question of what history means to Slavonians and what has sustained them over the centuries. Such a question stirs memories of personal history within the reader. After reading the text, a novel in which the characteristics of a historical novel and a novel about history are intertwined, a moment of the reader’s own biography is enlivened through the oak motif. In the key word recognition lies the true meaning of the literary text written in a time not inclined to a narration of a history not authenticated by scholarship.

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