КРАЈИШКИ ЕГЗОДУС У РОМАНУ "ДОЗИВИ КРОЗ ОЛУЈУ" КОВИЉКЕ ТИШМЕ ЈАНКОВИЋ
THE EXODUS FROM KRAJINA IN KOVILJKA TIŠMA JANKOVIĆ’S NOVEL "SUMMONS THROUGH THE STORM"

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we present the main values of Koviljka Tišma Janković’s novel Summons Through the Storm, a literary work that lies within the thematic framework of the Krajina war novel which deals with a significant point in the newer European history – the mass-exodus of Serbs from Croatia in 1995. The examined novel contains values that can be used as a basis for confirming the artistic positions on which the entire novel lies. Firstly, we notice that the novel uses the narrative consciousness to refuse the acceptance of truthfulness of any ideology and accepts only the truths of victims, casualties, and refugees. In situations after the exodus, victims are faced with boundaries of living in their homeland, as well as the bounda- ries of their vernacular, which can only be reconstructed through memory. However, memories are also inhabited by traumas, which causes the associative organization and fragmentation of the narrative. The narrator keeps trying to reconstruct the past, but they are facing various obstacles: either no authority could confirm the accuracy of these reconstructions, or one can never fully rely on the mechanisms of memory that are the mechanisms haunting the narrator’s thoughts. The paper also recognizes the vital, yet concealed presence of the elements of folklore and oral literature. This also includes the ancient motifs through which the matriarchal principle is made present in the novel. By revealing the listed values, the paper reveals the need for further readings, both of this novel and other Krajina war novels.

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