Книги 2015–2016
Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in 2015-2016
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Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in 2015-2016
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Based on the literary and cultural material, the article discusses two functions played by the term of emigrantology as a legacy of three waves of Russian emigration in the 20th century. The term was introduced by Lucjan Suchanek to the research space of Slavic emigration. It has systematized the area of intellectual and scientific self-reflection (including literary studies, historiography, philosophy and theology, and cultural studies), which developed in the community of Russian emigration. Additionally, the term provides modelling of the need for interdisciplinary and in the nearest future trans-disciplinary studies on the complex cultural phenomenon of Slavic emigrations. In this particular context, the article presents major research directions and achievements of Russian studies in Poland.
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This paper studies the cultural, in this case literary (prose),communication between writers-representatives of different nations. After the determination of the term interculturality and function of culture in slowing the stigma, ghettoisation, passes to the analysis of literary and social activities of two writers,members of the same minority in Serbia - Laslо Vegеl and Laslo Blašković. In the case of different strategies (writing in their native or second language, orientation towards his national community, the relationship to the majority, according to a former state – Yugoslavia – and present, Serbia, treatment of political issues, etc.) Establishes their relationship to their own entity stronghold and possibilities of overcoming its possible oppression (the term Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) or oppressiveness (termed Susan Stanford Friedman).
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The Home of Literature is a metaphor of the literature and literary community. However, this metaphor is connected with the home obsession in contemporary post-Yugoslavian literatures. After the collapse of the Former Yugoslavia and Bosnian war, the home is one of the constant themes in contemporary literature in all area. We can see that in the poetry of the Bosnian-Slovenian poet Josip Osti, but also in the novels and essays of the famous emigrant writer Dubravka Ugrešić, as well as in the works of Peter Semolič, Miljenko Jergović, Vida Ognjenović, Jasna Koteska etc. The home is often present even in the titles of their works (House of Language by Osti, House of Words by Semolič, The House of Dead Scents by Ognjenović), and what is more important – the home is a counterpart of the literature as a place of the sense in the world that every day loses a part of its sense and good taste. The literary home is not a utopian place, because it is a collective image and it could be the dystopian place as well. We mark that through the works about the prison and concentration camps – The Damned Yard by Ivo Andrić, the novels and stories by Danilo Kiš, Dragoslav Mihailović, Branko Hofman, Miroslav Popović etc. At all events, the literary home is always a place of the reinventing of the sense.
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Issue of the United Workers' Art Group "Abrašević"
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The paper considers travelogues of Yugoslav female writers Alma Karlin, Jelena Dimitrijević, Isidora Sekulić, Marica Gregorič Stepančič, Marica Strnad, Luiza Pesjak. These texts created in the first half of the 20th century in Serbian, Slovenian and German are on the periphery of the literary field and, with rare exceptions, do not belong to the canon. The most famous of these authors are Sekulić from Serbia and the German-speaking writer Karlin from Slovenia. Recently, the work of Dimitrijević has also become an object of attention of researchers. Other travelogues writers are almost forgotten. Identity problems, especially national ones, are a constant component of the travelogue genre. During a journey, the author directs his attention to “other /alien” peoples and cultures that can be called foreign to the perceiving consciousness. However, when one perceives the “other”, one inevitably turns to one’s “own”, one’s own identity. The concept of “own – other /alien”, on which the dialogical philosophy is based (M. Buber, G. Marcel, M. Bakhtin, E. Levinas), implies an understanding of the cultural “own” against the background of the “alien” and at the same time culturally “alien” on the background of “own”. Women’s travel has a special status in culture. Even in the first half of the 20th century the woman was given space at home. Going on a journey, especially unaccompanied, was at least unusual for a woman. According to Simone de Beauvoir, a woman in society is “different /other”. Therefore, women’s travelogues can be defined as the look of the “other” on the “other /alien”. In this paper, particular attention is paid to the interrelationship of gender, national identities and their conditioning with a cultural and historical context. At the beginning of the 20th century in the Balkans, national identity continues actively to develop and the process of women’s emancipation is intensifying. Therefore, the combination of gender and national issues for Yugoslavian female travelogues of this period is especially relevant. Dimitrijević’s travelogue Seven Seas and Three Oceans demonstrates this relationship most vividly: “We Serbian women are no less patriotic than Egyptian women… Haven’t Serbian women most of the merit that the big Yugoslavia originated from small Serbia?” As a result of this study, the specificity of the national and gender identity constructs in the first half of the 20th century in the analyzed texts is revealed. For this period one can note, on the one hand, the preservation of national and gender boundaries, often supported by stereotypes, on the other hand, there are obvious tendencies towards the erosion of the established gender and national constructs, the mobility of models of gender and national identification as well, largely due to the sociohistorical processes of the time.
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As the fundamental text for the study of artistic and literary avantgardes, Bürger’s Theory of the Avant-garde has been the subject of a wide and diverse critical reception. An especially contentious claim of Bürger’s is the one about the failure of neo-avant-garde art – a claim that cannot be separated from of his category of historical avant-gardes and the claim about the defeat of the pre-war avant-garde movements. Missing the construction of Bürger’s argumentation, different critics have pointed to different post-war artists and artistic movements which, through their work, revitalized avant-garde poetics with more or less success. However, by staying in the same framework of the Euroamerican capitalist West and its artistic system, these counterexamples could not offer a systemic intervention into Bürger’s theory. Due to its specific historical, social, and therefore cultural and artistic trajectory, the experience of Yugoslavia represents one of the possible points of departure for such an intervention. By focusing on existing interpretations of the relation between the Yugoslav avant-garde, neo-avant-garde and post-avant-garde, this article aims to show how the unique relation of the post-war avant-garde towards its tradition can contribute to the critical supplementation of Bürger’s theory and a more nuanced understanding of the possible relations between the neo-avantgarde and the avant-garde. In that sense, this article will try to show how the Yugoslav example is indispensable to a relevant discussion of artistic avantgardes in general.
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This article presents a comparative analysis on the poetics od Ivo Andic and Blaze Koneski, from the aspect of moral philosophy coprehension and its portion of presence. The analysis covers the segments of the Andric and Koneski’s stands and attitude on the issues of the decadentism in the art, their stands on the matter of the tradition, on the violence, etc. Also, this research analyses the style expressions on bouth authors. Especially, their interests and engagments for the human values and principals are accentted. The path of comparison moves in direction of the Balkan altruistic incoherence, the problem of the human relations and world parttiality that implicates the alienation and the loneliness. And finally, the problem of the rational behaviour of their literature heroes is accented as a basic of their humanism.
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Subject of this text are metafictional elements in novels Nišan (2007) by Blaže Minevski and Knjiga o Tari (2004) by Zdenko Lešić. Starting from theoretical models of metafiction (Linda Hutcheon, Patricia Waugh, Mark Currie), our comparative interpretation of the novels will be conducted on three levels: 1. Review of metafictional topics and techniques in the novels: explicit thematisation and demonstrations of relations literature – reality, art – life, fact – fiction; the tech niques of an “overt diegetic narcissism” (self-consciousnarrator, auto-thematisation of writing). 2. Мetatextual levels in the novels: variants ofauto – referential rethinking of his own narrative identity and metatextual variantsof commentary relations to other texts, to literary tradition and to literary codes and conventions. 3. Ontological implications of metafiction in the novels: function of metafiction in indicating of destabilized ontologicalstatus of literature; function of metafiction regarding creation of ontological implosion: self-conscious problematizations and levelling of boundaries between worlds (literature – reality, fact – fiction) and between texts (literary – nonliterary texts, original–plagiarism).
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This paper is about the structural changes of individual identities of the heroes in contemporary Balkan prose. Identity, as the most universal human category is socially, temporally and regionally determined. The changes that occur in these three segments inevitably bring changes in the system of building identities. This issue is frequently in the focus of the interest of many intercultural transitional Balkan authors. In this occasion, we will dwell on the interpretations of changes of literary identities of the heroes in the works of A. Hemon and L. Dimkovska as paradigmatic in different ways of forming one’s identity in the conditions of changing the work environments, to which the authors, as well as their heroes, were subjected.
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The spatial signs, or the proxemics in the work by Pajo Avirovic (Џахиз и истребувачите на кучиња), as well as in those by Tatjana Gromaca (Crnac), Miljenko Jergovic (Sarajevski Marlboro) and Fadila Nura Haver (Kad umrem da se smijem) are revealed through careful reading, which, on the other hand, points to the existence of two systems of signs. One is external, and as such is as foreign / isolated as it is harshly real, while the other is internal and is perceived as native / personal, as well as virtual. These signs are infused with meaning in an ideological sense and are incorporated in a whole ideologematic idea, and thus, the external sign becomes an ideologeme for foreign country, while the internal sign becomes an ideologeme for native country within the main question: Where is / What is my native country?, and also a question: Who I’m? In an even deeper analysis (as a mytheme), the external sign is closely connected to the adult, through the growing up process, especially the act of self-awareness as initiation, while the internal sign is connected to the child itself.
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The main focus of this article will be on the second part of Petar Mandžukov’s essay titled “The First World War – a Historical Essay” which is dominated by the memories and experiences he had as a direct participant, i.e. as a Bulgarian soldier in the First World War. In other words, Petar Mandžukov describes the events in the war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier. Thus, his work is an important source to process and communicate the perspective of those who bled on the ground – the soldiers.
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Релативно е мал бројот етнолошки текстови што се занимаваат со теми поврзани со Ромите на Балканот и во Македонија. Во овој текст, идејата е да се види како се зголeмувал интересот за Ромите и како потоа се градела претставата за Ромите во југословенската, а од југословенската се пренесла сликата во македонската етнолошка и антрополошка литература. За таа цел, во анализата се користени етнографски текстови и зборници посветени на Ромите во периодот на СФР Југославија во 70-тите, 80-тите, 90-тите години, како и текстови за Ромите објавени во Р Македонија од нејзината независност во 1991 г. до денес. Во дел од овие текстови може да се забележи како етнолозите и антрополозите во своите истражувања ја градат претставата за Ромите во неколку насоки. На самиот почеток во југословенската, а потоа со преземање на истиот модел и во македонската етнологија и антропологија се потенцира важноста да се истражува за Ромите како важна југословенска националност, а од друга страна се гради претстава за Ромите и ромската заедница како југословенска „другост“ со препорака дека би требало да биде истражувана од етнолози што ќе произлезат од заедницата на Ромите. Како резултат на мотивацијата на југословенско ниво да се ангажираат и Роми етнолози, најголем дел од македонските истражувачи што почнале да се занимаваат со ромската заедница се Роми едуцирани во југословенскиот период. По распаѓањето на СФР Југославија и концептот за југословенската националност составена од братските народи и народности, во рамките на балканските национални програми продолжува да егзистира концептот за ромската „другост“ преку концептот народна традиција кај Ромите. Овој концепт на ромската „другост“ од југословенската етнологија продолжил да се провлекува во текстовите кај Ромите истражувачи во современата македонска етнолошка литература.
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A relatively small number of ethnological papers deal with the Roma in the Balkans, including Macedonia. In this paper, the idea is to present how the scientific interest in Roma issues increased than how the image of the Roma was conceived in Yugoslavian literature. This image was then transferred to the Macedonian ethnological, anthropological literature. The analysis has used ethnographic papers and proceedings dedicated to the Roma in the period of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia) in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, and papers about the Roma, published in the Republic of Macedonia since its independence in 1991. In some of these papers, one can notice how the ethnologists and anthropologists build their image of the Roma in several directions. First, at the very beginning in the Yugoslavian, and then in Macedonian ethnology and anthropology, which copied the same model, the importance of researching the Roma as an important Yugoslavian nationality is stressed. On the other hand, an image of the Roma as the Yugoslavian ‘otherness’ is being built, followed by recommendations that ethnologists from the Roma community should research it. As a result of the efforts to employ Roma ethnologists at a Yugoslavian level, most of the Macedonian researchers who started dealing with the Roma community are Roma-educated in Yugoslavia. After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia and the concept of a Yugoslavian nationality, made up of brotherly peoples and minorities, the idea of the Roma ‘otherness’, through the concept of Roma national tradition, lives on within the national programs of the Balkans. Moreover, the concept of Roma ‘otherness’, stemming from Yugoslavian ethnology, endures in Roma’s researchers works in modern Macedonian ethnological literature.
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In this study we refer to the phenomenon of piety and its influence on literature and philosophy by this day. Starting from the term “folk-Bogomilan” poetry, first used by Kocho Racin, we present observations about the possibilities of emergence, even if spontaneous and not formed completely, of contemporary folk-Bogomilan authors, i.e. contemporary folk-Bogomilan literature. Hence, we terminologically upgrade Racin's position on folk-Bogomilan poetry with folk-Bogomilan or contemporary Bogomilan authors who have a distinctly social creative dimension. Such authors, for example, apart from Racin, are August Cesarec, Miroslav Krleza, Hristo Botev, Ivan Cankar, etc. These were authors who were “a thorn in the side of all conservative people”, who brought a “new spirit, art and life” into their works and who found themselves in conflict with the social systems of the time, i.e. the rule of “being Bogomil meant living outside the law, without the protection of any earthly authorities they were surrounded with” applied to them. In their works we should look for a reference to the old times, to denying and fighting against the existing social, religious and economic systems, to a demand for social justice, to dualism, etc.
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Prošao je vek od rođenja četiri makedonska književna velikana - Slavka Janevskog (1920.), Blažeta Koneskog (1921.), Koleta Čašula (1921.) i Ace Špopova (1923.). Retko je i u mnogo većim književnostima da se dogodi da se četiri ovakva književna majstora, takoreći vršnjaka, rodi i jednom, u tako zbijenom hronološkom rasponu od tri godine! Još više, jer svaki za sebe stvara individualizovan kreativan svet, što, ne samo u makedonskom, no i u širem književnom kontekstu, dostiže upečatljiv vrednosni domet. U jednoj svežoj, napetoj i dobro hranjenoj književnosti, dela ove četiri književne figure, moćnog književnog kalibra, traže dublje, novo iščitavanje i prevrednovanje od strane mlađih tumača.
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