POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM AND SERBIAN LITERATURE
POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM AND SERBIAN LITERATURE
Author(s): Slobodan V. VladušićContributor(s): Jovanka Kalaba (Translator)
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: Serbian literature; postcolonial criticism; global phenomenon; Arif Dirlik; Frantz Fanon; The Wretched of the Earth; Edward Said; Orientalism; Foucault; literary theory; cultural analysis; intellectual discourse;
Summary/Abstract: The significance and importance of thinking about the relationship between Serbian literature and postcolonial criticism does not stem from the affirmative answer to the question of whether Serbia was a colony in its history, but above all from the fact that postcolonial criticism is a global phenomenon. This is acknowledged by those theorists who are critical of postcolonial criticism: one of them is Arif Dirlik, who notes that “a description of a diffuse group of intellectuals, of their concerns and orientations, was to turn by the end of the decade into a description of a global condition”.1 The global status of postcolonial criticism obliges us to seriously consider its assumptions as well as its repercussions on Serbian literature.
Journal: Literary Links of Matica srpska
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 8-9
- Page Range: 97-105
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
