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Post-Yugoslav Constellations
This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different media and technologies, such as text and image, the cinema and the new digital media, on transmediality, intermediality, and remediation, as well as on the social (and increasingly transnational and transcultural) contexts of mediated memory. The aim of the series is to provide a vibrant international platform for research and scholarly exchange in the field of media and memory studies. Manuscripts submitted to the series are peer reviewed by expert referees.
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Censor’s scissors in Croatian literature: Shaping a(n) (inter)national community
Using some of the best-known examples from Croatian literature, this article examines the influence of censors on shaping the literary field in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. It compares the role of educated censors who supported the development of the literary field in the first decades of nineteenth-century Habsburg Croatia with that of censors who implemented the regime’s strict guidelines in the 1840s by banning books that had already been published with permission of a censor. Both types of censorship gave rise to political resistance, either through political struggle and illegal publication, or by means of covert literary devices such as allegory or Aesopian literary strategies. Moreover, the article highlights the problems of deciphering political allegory in the literary history of small nations, which tend to orientalise their literary heritage. In contrast to these tendencies, a new interpretation of the canonical text of Croatian literature, Smrt Smail-age Čengića [The Death of Smail-Aga Čengić] by Ivan Mažuranić, is offered here, presenting it as an example of explicit political commentary and a hidden literary response to strict censorship. A comparative analysis of his literary and political writings reveals their great importance both for the history of the Habsburg monarchy in the nineteenth century and for today’s Europe built upon the vision of unity within diversity.
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The “Disappearing” of Croatian Art in Hungarian Art Exhibitions at the Turn of the 20th Century
This article examines the place of Croatian art within Hungarian art exhibitions around the turn of the century. Over close to a decade, from the 1896 Millennial Exhibition until the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the way Croatian art was displayed within Hungarian exhibitions had changed. While it might seem that the ultimate absence of Croatian art in later Hungarian displays is an example of Hungarian chauvinism, the opposite is the case: Croatian art still continued to be displayed, but not as a subsidiary of Hungarian art.
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The Princip principle
Quite surprisingly, some novels in contemporary France still deal with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Gavrilo Princip on June the 28th 1914. This is the case in Sarajevo omnibus by Velibor Čolić: a six-part novel focused on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, as a way to tell the story of Sarajevo—the city the author had to leave to seek refuge in France during the separatist war in the 1990s. The story of the Sarajevo’s attack is told as if History would have preferred, both ironically and literally, to surrender itself to a Princip Principle (“un Principe Princip”)—which is like a phantom pain of the past, and an uncertainty principle for writing and interpreting History.
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Prvi posvetni leposlovni prevodi v zgodovini slovenske, hrvaške, srbske in bolgarske književnosti
V prispevku so obravnavani zgodnji prevodi posvetnih leposlovnih besedil v zgodovini slovenske, hrvaške, srbske in bolgarske književnosti; obravnava temelji na obstoječih knji-ževnozgodovinskih in prevodoslovnih razpravah. Zgodnji prevodi različnih zvrsti posvetnega leposlovja (poezija, proza, dramatika) se v izbranih južnoslovanskih književnostih pojavijo v različnih zgodovinskih obdobjih, od srednjega veka do druge polovice 19. stoletja. Prav tako raznovrstna je tudi dinamika pojavljanja prevodov različnih zvrsti posvetnega leposlovja znotraj posameznih književnosti.1
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The Vow to Testify: On the Gulag and Intertextual Economy of Literature (Karlo Štajner, Varlam Shalamov, Danilo Kiš)
Departing from the “aesthetics of unrepresentability” of testimonial literature and implied “belatedness and collapse of witnessing” (G. Agamben, Sh. Felman, D. Laub), the paper engages in the economic foundations of literature through analysis of symbolic meanings of economic metaphors in Štajner’s memoirs Seven Thousand Days in Siberia and Shalamov’s story Lend-Lease, and through illuminating different aspects of intertextual and intercultural exchange between Štajner’s memoirs and Kiš’s “pseudo-factual” fiction A Tomb for Boris Davidovich. What is testimony and can it be – considering the nature of the one who testifies and the language in which he testifies – “valid,” “valuable,” “useful,” to use the language of economy? Can we think about Kiš’s literary appropriation of Štajner’s memoirs as an outlet for reclaiming the voice not only of Štajner, but also of Kiš’s father, who perished in Auschwitz? What are the uses of economic hypothesis in literary studies?
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Liryczny, emocjonalny, intelektualny: dyskurs krytycznoliteracki Mirosława Krležy i Tina Ujevicia
This paper attempts to define the basic characteristics of Krleža’s and Ujević’s literary criticism discourse in the context of productive and divers Croatian literary criticism in the period between 1914 and 1952, i.e. between the end of Literary Modernism and appearance of the literary magazine Krugovi (the so-called Second Literary Modernism). Krleža and Ujević share a principled understanding of criticism as a combination of emotions (experience of something artistic) and intellect (knowledge of literary and extra-literary context), a philosophical dimension of subjects observed and questions asked, and the refusal to accept any kind of previously prescribed „objective method“ or poetics. The key difference is in approach and description. In Krleža’s work, along with his characteristic artistic gilt we can also discern a sociologic, historic and ideological level with mostly left prefix along with incorporated consideration of literary phenomenon. However, Ujević’s works are dominated by an „adorable chaotic fair of sensations, and spontaneity of soul“ (M. Vaupotić) with no firm foothold in any kind of superior opinion models. In the development of Croatian literary criticism from Literary Modernism to the literary magazine Krugovi, critical essays of Krleža and Ujević hold a special position due to their associativity, and rhetoric and erudite diversification.
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Economic Transactions between Characters: Representations of Tourism Practices in Contemporary Croatian Literature and Culture
The aim of this paper is to examine the complex relational dynamics between tourism (both as a global phenomenon and a set of specific practices), space and economy in selected literary texts whose narratives are set in two different economic and political periods: socialism, and capitalism and democracy. Since these concepts cannot be easily understood through disciplinary knowledge, this paper will view the chosen literary texts as pre-disciplinary cultural products that generate specific “social knowledge” (Felski) which presents the fullness of the social world more successfully than other forms of culture or knowledge. The authors whose literary texts were included in this analysis are contemporary Croatian writers: Antun Šoljan, Zoran Ferić, Boris Dežulović and Jurica Pavičić. The first two authors wrote texts in which the relationships between tourists and locals are prevalently of symbolic and exchange value, and they mostly belong to the sphere of libidinal economy. Dežulović and Pavičić deal with contemporary tourism practices which change the identity of towns and people forever.
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