BASIC CHARACTERISTICS AND IDEOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF THE POLITICAL EVALUATION OF SERBIAN LITERATURE FROM THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ONWARDS
BASIC CHARACTERISTICS AND IDEOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF THE POLITICAL EVALUATION OF SERBIAN LITERATURE FROM THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ONWARDS

Summary/Abstract: In the last decade of the twentieth century, in a significant segment of foreign academic criticism (in the fields of literary science, historiography, sociology, cultural anthropology, political science), the prevailing way of dealing with Serbian literature is such that it does not take into account the aesthetic relevance of literary works nor does it attach importance to them by functionalizing their aesthetic reach, in order to—drawing examples from artistically representative works— present and prove the ideological unacceptability and danger of even the most important Serbian prose and poetry works and their authors (Peter II Petrovic Njegoš, Ivo Andrić, Vasko Popa, Dobrica Ćosić, Milorad Pavić, Slobodan Selenić). Thus, artistically relevant works are indicated—from the above critical aspect—not as areas for the research and elucidation of aesthetic values in Serbian literature, but as samples in which the ideological views of writers are sought. When it comes to this type of foreign, but also a part of domestic criticism (from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century), it is necessary to point out an important methodological distinction of the approach in this study from that of Edward Said, which he explicitly stated in the afterword to later editions of his Orientalism.

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