WAR AND POST-WAR REVOLUTION POETRY IN YUGOSLAVIA BETWEEN STEREOTYPICAL POETRY AND ORIGINAL POETICS Cover Image

RATNA I PORATNA REVOLUCIONARNA POEZIJA U JUGOSLAVIJI IZMEĐU ŠABLONSKOG PJESNIŠTVA I ORIGINALNIH POETIKA
WAR AND POST-WAR REVOLUTION POETRY IN YUGOSLAVIA BETWEEN STEREOTYPICAL POETRY AND ORIGINAL POETICS

Author(s): Jahja Fehratović, Amela Lukač-Zoranić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Bosnian Literature, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: revolution poetry; oral literature; written literature; partisan poetry; People’s Liberation Movement poetry; socrealism; poetry on rebuilding the country and establishing socialism

Summary/Abstract: In the South-Slavic regions, revolution poetry was present as early as the Middle Ages in both its basic forms—oral and written literature—among almost all the South-Slavic peoples, although the quality and intensity varied. In the war time periods in the Balkans, this medium of social pro-activism was gaining more significance and was promoted to occupy the central position of the literary throne where the peculiar political role also determined its aesthetical value to a great degree. It is precisely for this reason that a qualitative stratification of this layer of our shared spiritual heritage took place and was, in many aspects, founded both on the premises of poetics, oral or written revolution poetry, but also their transitional genres of poetry on the labouring masses and the partisan folk song. It is the very oral tradition level of such poetics that was characterized as ’’stereotypical”, whereas the written tradition varied depending on the erudition and the quality of the very author, and would at times trespass the revolutionary framework only to be engrossed into universal lyrical values of the South-Slavic and world literature.

  • Issue Year: 3/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 190-215
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Bosnian