Myths and Folklore in the Contemporary Macedonian Literature
Myths and Folklore in the Contemporary Macedonian Literature

Summary/Abstract: The paper “Myths and Folklore in the Contemporary Macedonian Literature” has an objective to present the specific condition of the Macedonian contemporary literature regarding the presence and reception of great cultural myths. It will illustrate that Macedonian contemporary literature encloses evidence of great myths from world literature, but even more that it is determined by the myths that are typical for the Balkan region. These instances are provoked by the specific, rapid and unconventional growth of the literature in Macedonia, but also due to the latest political situation in the ex-Yugoslav countries, that are facing the still ongoing process of establishing national identities. The changes of the national, ethnic, regional, social, historical and cultural sphere resulted in numerous evocations of the past, new readings of the history, mystifications of persons and events from the past, and all that considerably present in the everyday life, as well as in the contemporary art created in the country.

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