THE SACREDNESS AND THE BURDEN OF THE VOW OF KOSOVO
THE SACREDNESS AND THE BURDEN OF THE VOW OF KOSOVO
Author(s): SLADOJE ĐORĐOContributor(s): Angelina ČANKOVIĆ POPOVIĆ (Translator)
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: Kosovo and Metohija; sacredness; Vow of Kosovo; Kosovo myth; national consciousness; poetry; historical memory; collective identity; cultural symbolism;
Summary/Abstract: I admit: It is hard for me to speak about Kosovo and Metohija without heightened emotions, but I will not burden you with lyrical variations on the topic that are found – overly, perhaps – in my poems. Yet a reminder would not come amiss of the important role played by poetry in the shaping of our historical and national consciousness, in the maintaining of the Choice and the Vow of Kosovo, i.e. of the Vidovdan1 ethics. At this point I refer to the epic poetry first and foremost, “our sole substantial classic”, then to Njegoš2 as the “tragic hero of the Kosovo thought”, and also of Rakić,3 Popa,4 Bećković,5 Nogo6 and other poets that have – to the extent of their individual gifts – exalted Kosovo to the realm of poetry.
Journal: Literary Links of Matica srpska
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 4-5
- Page Range: 261-266
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
