Vyhodený študent pri skale. K mozaike života Tomášikovej hymnickej piesne Hej, Slováci! V slovensko-slovanskom kultúrnom priestore
The expelled student by the rock. On the mosaic of life in Tomášik’s anthemic song “Hej, Slováci! [Hey, Slovaks!]” within the Slovak-Slavic cultural space

Summary/Abstract: The anthemic song “Hej, Slováci! [Hey, Slovaks!]” by Samo Tomášik (1813–1887), composed in 1834, accompanied key events in the Slovak national movement throughout the long 19th century and forms a significant part of Slovak (and, more broadly, Slavic) cultural memory. This study offers a mosaic-like interdisciplinary perspective based on official bans on Slovak hymn singing and waves of persecution against students with a national consciousness, set against the backdrop of the period’s enforced political and ethnic (cultural and linguistic) homogenisation of Hungary. Linguistic and literary research focuses on the lexical, textual, and intertextual specificities of source texts from various genres. The inclusion of emblematic literary fragments reveals the period literary canon, which included hymnic songs. Intertextuality characterizes the texts of established authors as well as those of publishing members of the younger generation, such as Ján Veselý (1862–1931), a representative of the expelled students. At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the motif of students expelled from schools for reading, writing, or singing in Slovak was widely present in the work of Jozef Podhradský (1823–1915), who was active in the Slovak cultural milieu of Serbia and Vojvodina, especially in his work Tragédia Tatry [Tatra: A tragedy]. A comparison of the two Slavic environments shows the differing circumstances and effects of Tomášik’s song in its hymnic function.

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