Destrukcijom identiteta do apsurda u prozi Mlakića i Dežulovića
From the destruction of identity to absurdity in the prose of Mlakić and Dežulović
Author(s): Nebojša LujanovićSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Croatian Studies Centre
Keywords: postmodernism; the construction of identity; imagined community; crisis of culture; the other; contingency theory; popular culture; absurdity; essentialism
Summary/Abstract: A theoretical paradigm which dominates in the temporary literal theory and defines it as heterogeneous and variable construction, can be applied on the two novels of Croatian writers: Kad magle stanu by Josip Mlakića, and Jebo sad hiljadu dinara by Boris Dežulović. In the novels which are analyzed in this paper, there can be found antagonism between identity and The Other as neighboring, but opposed, identity. That juxtaposition is situated in the context of the Croat-Bosniak war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s and presented by cultural stereotypes which have a significant role in cultural confrontations.
Journal: Croatian Studies Review - Časopis hrvatskih studija
- Issue Year: 2009
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 281-295
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Croatian