ПОЛИТИКА И ДИJAЛЕКТ: ИВАН ИВАНОВИЋ, ШОПСКИ ГОВОР И ПРИПОВЕТКЕ ИЗ ЦИКЛУСА „СЕВЕР-ЈУГ“
POLITICS AND DIALECTS: IVAN IVANOVIĆ, THE SHOP DIALECT AND SHORT STORIES FROM THE CYCLE „NORTH-SOUTH“

Summary/Abstract: Ivan Ivanović (1936), а writer from the south of Serbia, the author of over twenty novels, collections of stories and plays, in one of the writers banned during the communist Yugoslavia. Among a prohibited works of this writer, there are two collections of short stories, "Shop Embassy" (''Šopska ambasada'') and "Honeysuckle" (''Kozja krv''), written mainly in the sixties, and published in its entirety in the nineties, after the fall of the communist regime. This "anti-communist propaganda" tells the story about the impact of politics on the lives of ordinary people from the south of Serbia. These stories are, as the author himself says, written in shop dialect or include characters who speak this dialect and, together with eight other novels, form the cycle "North – South". Besides the political intrigue in Belgrade and power games in the regional centers of the Communist Party, the fate of people from southern Serbia in these stories is determined by their origin and their dialect, by which others define them as illiterate and backward, unable to fit in the prescribed/imposed language/system. Newcomers from other parts of former Yugoslavia, whose views are close to the party, and whose dialect is closer to the standard, imposed themselves as an elite, occupied important social positions and in fact became masters of lives of the local population. That fits with the views of the writer, which we also discuss in this paper, about the conflict between foreign and domestic, Dinaric and Shop, and discrimination against the latter in the south of Serbia.

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