Systems of Literature Outside their Matrix: Framing Unstable Emigre and Stable 'Voluntary Exile' Models of National Literature
Systems of Literature Outside their Matrix: Framing Unstable Emigre and Stable 'Voluntary Exile' Models of National Literature

Summary/Abstract: Vinko Brešić defined the essential difference between emigre and exile literature in his article Hrvatska emigratska književnost (1945-1990) (Croatian Emigre Literature [1945-1990]!. This paper, which is based on the hypotheses of Brešić and Grubišić (1991), as well as some of my articles written in 195 and 1998, attempts to work out the literary models of uns table groups of emigre literature, affirming the difference between the emigre (migrant), the ethnic (minority) and, finally, the third group of what I call the 'voluntary' exile model. In this sense, this paper deals with the types of 'dislocatedness' in the corpus of emigre literature, and the models of their incorporation/exclusion in the matrix of Croatian literature and the adopted literary framework (in this case, Australian literature).

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