(De)Constructing the Discourse of Power (The Elements of the Ideological Subversion in the Narrative Discourses of Miljenko Jergović and Josip Mlakić) Cover Image

De/konstruiranje diskursa moći (Elementi ideološke subverzije u narativnom diskursu Miljenka Jergovića i Josipa Mlakića)
(De)Constructing the Discourse of Power (The Elements of the Ideological Subversion in the Narrative Discourses of Miljenko Jergović and Josip Mlakić)

Author(s): Emilija Kovač
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Semantics, Croatian Literature, Sociology of Culture, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: theo-ideology; intertextuality; chronotope; postmodernism; semantic reduction; cliché;

Summary/Abstract: Within the context of the communities that sense and shape their national identities as relatively reliable and mutually distinguishing given social conditions, the paper analyses the textualisations of a series of individually perceived culturologic stresses such as (not) belonging, not) being entrenched and (un) acceptability of self/Someone else. In line with the reflexions of E. Kazaz and M. Solar concerning the reductive effect of various centres of power, the narrative strategies were observed (positioning of a character, point of view, and intellectual suggestions and connotations) in recent works of authors who have been shaped up artistically and as persons in the surroundings that features strong quality of being ideologized (Miljenko Jergović, Josip Mlakić). The social reception of and the control over production (stipulating book-printing, awarding and the market corporative strategy), being a construct of ideologized institutions, are the sharetakers in the game of masses and power in which the pluralization of the profile of readers, creativeness and market strategies eventually do provide for a coexistence of a polyphony of ideas, aesthetic values and views of the world.

  • Issue Year: 5/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 57-79
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Croatian