Geopolitika mašte: književnost i prostori moći
Geopolitics of Imagination: Literature and Spaces of Power

Summary/Abstract: Geopolitics, as a scholarly discipline that places geographical space at the centre of political power, draws its inspiration from literary works. Literary texts, whose narratives implicitly presuppose the existence of a particular setting in which events unfold, serve as a powerful means of shaping geographical space. This space is sometimes described through real categories and lived experiences; however, in many cases such depictions are imaginary, reflecting the author’s in ternal perspectives or visions grounded in elements other than empirical reality. The methodological approach employed in this study is based on demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between literature and geopolitics, whereby literature influences geopolitics and political processes at both micro and macro levels, while geopolitics – understood as the political and social context in which a liter ary work is produced – inevitably shapes the literary text itself. The findings of the study emerge from a comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Ivo Andrić’s The Damned Yard, which collectively indicate that the selected novels, in their own distinct ways, engage with violence as a consequence of the geopolitical positioning of geographic space within the centre of imperial and broader political tensions.

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