Montenegro Imagined. Martin Kukučín’s Travel Journal In Dalmatia and Montenegro Cover Image

Czarnogóra wyobrażona? Dziennik podróży V Dalmáci a na Čiernej hore Martina Kukučína
Montenegro Imagined. Martin Kukučín’s Travel Journal In Dalmatia and Montenegro

Author(s): Aleksandra Hudymač
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Slovak Literature, Sociology of Culture, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Montenegro; Balkans; travel; travel journal; border; Balkanism;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the first part of the Balkan travel journal entitled Travel Features, written by the Slovak prose writer Martin Kukučín 1898. The text deals with the image of Montenegro in the context of the tension between its stereotypical and real image. Montenegro is studied here in the context of the cognitive triangle: landscape – femininity – masculinity. Kukučín looks at the most fundamental stereotypes and self-stereotypes about Montenegro, such as the myth of heroism, amputated femininity or the harshness and inaccessibility of the Montenegrin landscape. In his tale, on the basis of a palimpsest, elements intricate and problematizing the unambiguous image of Montenegro are woven.

  • Issue Year: 15/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 109-122
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish