Oblivion and Ideology. On the Reception and Fate of Croatian Literary Critics Publishing in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) Cover Image

Zaborav i ideologija. O recepciji i sudbini hrvatskih književnih kritičara koji su objavljivali za Nezavisne Države Hrvatske (1941-1945)
Oblivion and Ideology. On the Reception and Fate of Croatian Literary Critics Publishing in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945)

Author(s): Ivica Matičević
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Croatian Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: ideology and aesthetics; politics and literature; Croatian literary criticism; Croatian literature in the Independent State of Croatia; reception of a literary work

Summary/Abstract: The paper provides an analytical account of the fate of selected Croatian literary critics/writers (V. Nikolić, A. Bonifačić, A. Barac...) who wrote reviews and essays in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945). After the end of the Second World War, communist Yugoslavia was founded and the publication was banned, and Croatian literature written in the NDH fell into oblivion. On the other hand, after the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991 and the civil war in Croatia, there is a rehabilitation of certain topics, writers and their works that were banned and faced the risk of oblivion during the socialist political system. The fundamental basis of this work is to try to answer the question: how the ideology and political dictatorship of one period can influence the reception of literary and cultural values created during a different ideological and political system.

  • Issue Year: 18/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 117-126
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian