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Phantom of Freedom

Phantom of Freedom

Fantom slobode

Frequency: 3 issues / Country: Croatia

The rationale behinf the birth of Phantom of Freedom was to promote good literature, the literature that by its spirit and imagination goes against "borders", and boreders are, particularly here and today, rather too many. In an endless contrasting of national, geographic, ideological and linguistic differences, similarities are totally forgotten. The editorial board of the periodical is international, consisting of Ammiel Alcalay, Miljenko Jergovic, Igor Lasic, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Jurica Pavicic, Nenad Popovic, Dusanka Profeta, Andrea Radak, Dalibor Simpraga and Slaven Tolj. In the first issue the works of thirteen Croatian conceptual artists has been published as well.

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Hourglass. Autobiographical Notes 1924-1942
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Hourglass. Autobiographical Notes 1924-1942

Vjetrenjasta klepsidra. Autobiografske zabilješke 1924-1942

Author(s): Branko Polić / Language(s): Croatian

Branko Polić was born on April 24, 1924 in Zagreb. As a Jew, he was forced to spend about ten months of childhood and early youth on various coastal resorts. In 1945, he successfully mastered the classical grammar school and then studied at Sorbonne where he gained a French-language fellowship diploma. Upon returning, in 1948, he continued his studies in English and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, "in a record time", in 1950. He was soon admitted to the Radio Radio of Zagreb and thanks to musical affinities became a critic in the music program, then the editor of the music-speaking editorial (1956-1964). After the establishment of the Third Program, he became editor and commentator until his retirement (1985), and thereafter a regular associate. <br> Branko Polić met and talked with over five hundred reproductive artists, and collected fascinating documentary and music material on many of the travels he took as a music editor. While several thousand of his shows have "gone into ether," dozens of articles, discussions, presentations, essays, criticisms and translations have been scattered across domestic and foreign journals, newspapers, lexicons and collections.

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Ecofeminism
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Ecofeminism

Ekofeminizam

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: ecofeminism; spiritual ecofeminism; materialist ecofeminism; vegan ecofeminism; animal rights;

Proceedings Ecofeminism: between women's and green studies, edited by Goran Đurđević and Suzana Marjanić (Durieux Publisher, Zagreb, 2020), consists of 40 texts from the humanities and social sciences (anthropology, journalism, political science, sociology, literary theory, science of education) and art (poetry and prose), written by 37 authors from Croatia, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The starting point for edited book was workshop cycle on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb organized with help of professor Drago Roksandić and there was created idea for book by Mirjana Grabovac, Karmen Ratković and Suzana Marjanić. Also, various colleagues such as Dražen Tončić and Mirta Maslać from Durieux, artist Kristina Pongrac and reviewers Ivica Bakota, Zlatko Bukač and Ana Stojanović have been an important part of this volume. The aims of the collection are to actualize ecofeminism and encourage critical reflection and analysis of long-term ecofeminism in Croatia and Southeast Europe; permeation of global and local approaches and knowledge transfer; openness to young authors. For these reasons, the book can be read on several levels: theoretical as a contribution to the knowledge of the theory of ecofeminism in the context of contemporary trends, socio-political as an analysis of social processes and structures, activist through the analytical perspective of activism of individual groups and actors in public, performative and political life. The final part of the volume are poems and this piece of book shows a holistic approach to ecofeminism and integration of scholarship, essays and art which is leading back to the roots and indigenous perspectives of life and community understood as integration.

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Splitting: How I Searched for Serbs in the City
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Splitting: How I Searched for Serbs in the City

Splitting: Kako sam tražio Srbe po gradu

Author(s): Damir Pilić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: dissolution of Yugoslavia;Split;JNA;Damir Pilić;

In the novel "Splitting", with the ominously ambiguous subtitle "How I Searched for Serbs in the City" (which in another culture, say Czech, could be the title of some Hašek humoresque), a whole world of good neighbours, friends and schoolmates cracks at the seams and collapses. Based on the experience of youth that is maturing in the shade of socialist blocks of Split through games of football, first drunkenness, petty theft, skipping classes and confused, casual sex, Split youth suddenly, still green, learns that "we are not all the same", this prose precisely depicts and demystifies the time in which the Dalmatian metropolis shockingly and forever changed its face. The plot of the novel mostly takes place in one of Split's neighborhoods inhabited by former Yugoslav military (JNA) personnel, mostly serving in the former naval base of Lora, in the period from the New Year 1990 to November 15 of 1991, when the first shells from the ships of the then Yugoslav navy fell on Split. Told from the perspectives of several characters, mostly underage high school students, who show more or less misunderstanding and resistance to the changes that are taking place, this Split story seems more authentic and true than anything written so far about the period. With this novel, journalist and publicist Damir Pilić has established himself as an excellent narrator. Damir Pilić was born in 1969 in Šibenik. He has a master's degree in psychology and a degree in journalism from Zagreb University. He published the scientific monograph Samoubojstva: oproštajna pisma (Suicides: Farewell Letters, 1998); the novels Đavo prvo pojede svoju majku (The Devil Eats His Mother First, 2001), Splitting (2014) and Kao da je sve normalno (As if Everything is Normal, 2018); the journalistic study Marx nije mrtav (Marx is Not Dead, 2016) as well as Tito očima Krleže (Tito Through The Eyes of Krleža, 2020). In co-authorship with Dražen Lalić, he published a book about young Split delinquents Na mladima svijet zastaje (The World Stops for Young People, 2001) and the monograph Torcida: Pogled iznutra (Torcida: An Inside View, 2011), and with Ed Vujević a study on former heroin addicts Dedal na iglama (Daedalus on Needles, 2005). From 1994 to 2001 he worked as a reporter for Feral Tribune, and since 2001 he writes for Slobodna Dalmacija newspapers. He lives in Split.

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Marx in the Digital Age. Dialectical Materialism at the Gates of Technology
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Marx in the Digital Age. Dialectical Materialism at the Gates of Technology

Marx u digitalnom dobu. Dijalektički materijalizam na vratima tehnologije

Author(s): Katarina Peović / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Marxism; digital media; emancipation; Internet; critique of political economy; Heidegger;

Marx in the Digital Age. Dialectical Materialism on the Gates of Technology is a book that questions the understanding of political emancipation with the help of new technologies. It asks how new technologies, especially new media, can contribute to the democratisation of society and emancipation of minority cultures. The book elaborates systematically and epistemologically on the question of emancipatory politics on the Internet, ideology and its reflection onto the new media problems, the changes in the structure and character of work in the age of cognitariat, and the understanding of the concept of »virtuality«. The author uses theoretical tools of many philosophers and theorists, such as Heidegger, Foucault, and Lacan, bridging the gap between classical philosophy and technology. The book is an eloquent elaboration of the contemporary techno–scientific, and politico-economical order, and offers a grounded new media theory from the perspective of the critique of the political economy. Katarina Peović is an assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Studies on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Comparative Literature on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She edited a collection of articles by the American theorist Hakim Bey, Contemporary Autonomous Zones and Other Texts (2003). In the year 2012, she published the book Media and Culture. Media Ideology after the Decentralisation. She published her works in the journals Crisis & Critique, Badiou Studies, Stasis, Književna smotra, Trípodos, and Synthesis Philosophica.

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Bread, Imagination & Fat: Scenes and Memoirs of old Pula (1947-1957)
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Bread, Imagination & Fat: Scenes and Memoirs of old Pula (1947-1957)

Kruh, mašta & mast: Prizori i memorabilije o staroj Puli (1947.-1957.)

Author(s): Miroslav Bertoša / Language(s): Croatian

Bertoša's approach to the first decade of post-WWII Pula (1947–1957) is distinctive and different, fresh and original, intimate and rich in content, far from generally accepted stereotypes and imposed ideological lessons. Because the past, as the Istrian and Croatian historian points, belongs to everyone. Within these unusual pages, Miroslav Bertoša opens a field of research neglected in Croatian historiography. It is about the so-called "pesonal history" (ego-histoire), or "intellectual biography", well known in Western European cultural circles. It is a history experienced by an individual in the dramatic context of survival and carried within himself during lifetime. Time that has just passed no longer has a political "owner" and ideological "supervisor", it becomes a segment of the past reality that can be experienced and documented from a personal, individual, exceptional and unrepeatable angle. Miroslav Bertoša (1938) is a historian and long-term scientific advisor at the Institute of Historical and Social Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), now a professor at the University of Juraj Dobrila in Pula. First Consul General of the Republic of Croatia in Trieste (1995-1998). Associate member of HAZU. He began publishing essays, articles and critiques in 1954, and since 1963 he has been researching modern Istrian history and Istrian anti-fascism, as well social, political, demographic and ethnic components of the Venetian part of Istria and the northern Adriatic area from the 16th to the 18th century. He is a connoisseur of contemporary historiography, and especially of movements in the avant-garde French Annales school. Alongside Robert Matijašić he was coeditor of the Istrian Encyclopedia (2005).

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Theater of Crisis
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Theater of Crisis

Kazalište krize

Author(s): Snježana Banović / Language(s): Croatian

The texts in this book analyze Croatian national theater policy from the 19th century to the present day pointing out the continuity of the ongoing crisis caused by the chronic lack of a strategy for its development and the lagging behind of Croatian theater production in relation to our neighbors and other theater models from the past. Also, some of the texts deal with the development of numerous political systems throughout history and their strong influence on the work of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb, on festival culture and the positions of key figures from the theater's past and present. It also includes other theater personalities and brings several controversies related to currently important officials and administration holders who have decisively influenced or are influencing the orientation of Croatian cultural and theater policy. This is a book that continues the author's masterful book The State and Its Theater, and it equally articulates her scientific research abilities as well as live public participation and numerous quality contributions in polemics about the fate of Croatian theater today. The book is the result of serious research and a document of the author's professional and public engagement. Snježana Banović is a theatre director, writer and full professor at the Department of Production of the Academy for Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of Zagreb. She published four books (State and its Theatre, Theatre of Crisis Official Exit and Theatre for People). Her main interest is in the area of cultural history, cultural management, national theatres, national festivals in the context of cultural policy in Croatia and the EU and most of her work is focused on these topics. She publishes reviews, studies and articles in journals, newspapers and on-line publications and is a member of various Croatian and international cultural associations. She was appointed two times as head of the Cultural Committee for Theatre at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and was Artistic manager for Drama of the Croatian National theatre in Zagreb. As a professor she has been a mentor to numerous students and was leading as well various research projects at the University of Zagreb.

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Defences with the Taste of Death
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Defences with the Taste of Death

Obrane okusa smrti

Author(s): Željka Matijašević / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Postmodernism; hybridity; psychoanalysis; Freud; Jung; Lacan; love; homo duplex;

Into a loosely constructed love story, Željka Matijašević incorporates a dialogue between Id, Ego, and Super-Ego, and a quarrel between Freud, Jung and Lacan; an essayistic comparison of Julian Barnes and Gustave Flaubert, and many other, apparently, disparate elements. This hybrid novel was written as a structural homage to Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot. Plot-wise, it is a story about a couple who cannot realise their relationship. Mixing psychoanalytic theory with the ludic narration, Matijašević creates a wonderfully witty piece of writing. Željka Matijašević was born in 1968, in Zagreb. She graduated in Comparative Literature, and French Language and Literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She obtained her doctor's degree at the Trinity College of the Cambridge University. She is a full-professor at the Department of the Comparative Literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her main interests are psychoanalytic theory and applied psychoanalysis. She is an author of six scientific books: Lacan: ustrajnost dijalektike (2005), Strukturiranje nesvjesnog: Freud i Lacan (2006), Uvod u psihoanalizu: Edip, Hamlet, Jekyll/Hyde (2011), Stoljeće krhkog sebstva: psihoanaliza, društvo, kultura (2016), Drama, drama (2020), and The Borderline Culture (2021). She also authored one novel, Defences with the Taste of Death (2019), and a lexicon Black Lymph/Green Heart: The Alternative Lexicon of Soul (2017). She is a member of La Fondation Européenne pour la Psychanalyse and the Croatian Writers Society.

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The Lines Which You Call Rivers
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The Lines Which You Call Rivers

Linije koje ti nazivaš rijekema

Author(s): Amir Alagić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: devil; curse; madness; war; death; loyalty; loneliness; alienation; quest; hope; history; Johnny Cash,

The short story collection The Lines Which You Call Rivers contains both short stories and novellas that testify about Amir Alagić's true talent manifesting itself through authentic narratives, strong images, and daring, rich figurative expressions we have already had the chance to experience in his novels The Sacravenges and Hundred Years' Childhood. Alagić is a master narrator, his reality is tangible, odorous and visible, the events multi-layered and refined with symbolism. The twelve stories, that depict different periods and places, the old age and wasted youth, the devil, curse and madness, show us that Amir Alagić is an important name in our literature, and we should read his works. Amir Alagić was born in 1977, in Banja Luka. So far he has published the novels The Sacravenges (2016), Hundred Years' Childhood (2017), and Tunnels (2019), and the short story collections Under the Same Sky (2010), and The Lines Which You Call Rivers. He published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a screenply for the short feature film Toying, or a Broken Water Heater (2012). He lives in Pula.

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The Sacravenges
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The Sacravenges

Osvetinje

Author(s): Amir Alagić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: revenge; sacredness; sacrifice; family; love; jealousy; war; adultery; orphan; painter; Rovinj; Amsterdam;

Considering the difficulty of the novel's theme, the composure of narration, and the writing skills, one would not think The Sacravenges was Amir Alagić's debut novel. Alagić elevates the art of narration to an exceptional level, so much so that each of the characters becomes a novel in itself – there is nothing too insignificant for the author, and he is able to discover infinity in details. Sadly, people from the seaside town, which is the novel's setting, dedicate their inner infinity only to revenge. They are crumbling inside like their country that has descended into war. Although aware they are hurling into a terrible eternity, they have decided to taste the infernal agonies during their lifetime. Amir Alagić was born in 1977, in Banja Luka. So far he has published the novels The Sacravenges (2016), Hundred Years' Childhood (2017), and Tunnels (2019), and the short story collections Under the Same Sky (2010), and The Lines Which You Call Rivers. He published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a screenply for the short feature film Toying, or a Broken Water Heater (2012). He lives in Pula.

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Hundred Years' Childhood
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Hundred Years' Childhood

Stogodišnje djetinjstvo

Author(s): Amir Alagić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: city; globe; history; century; wars; exile; jewlery; quest; suspicion; alienation; fantastic elements; Pula,

In his debut novel The Sacravenges, Amir Alagić already showed his deep understanding of human soul. There he also elevated the art of description to the highest level, reaching the innermost depths through the exterior surface. In his second novel, Hundred Years' Childhood he ventured farther in developing his art. This time the stage of human drama is the Croatian city of Pula. The time spans across the whole century encompassing not only the contemporary period, but also the First and Second World Wars. The city becomes a real theatrum mundi, an intersection of destinies of different nationalities, where each life becomes a story in itself, and whose familiar localities testify about the transience of life. Amir Alagić was born in 1977, in Banja Luka. So far he has published the novels The Sacravenges (2016), Hundred Years' Childhood (2017), and Tunnels (2019), and the short story collections Under the Same Sky (2010), and The Lines Which You Call Rivers. He published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a screenply for the short feature film Toying, or a Broken Water Heater (2012). He lives in Pula.

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Tunnels
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Tunnels

Tuneli

Author(s): Amir Alagić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: mystery; rashomon; New Years's Eve; bar; death; stranger; alienation; love; return; interconnected stories; history; Pula;

On a New Year's Eve someone – the narrator or destiny – threw their web over the city. In Amir Alagić's new novel, Tunnels, the sudden death of a stranger in a bar multiplies in a game of mirrors. The game reveals that apparently random bar guests are connected by invisible tunnels. If we decide to venture through those tunnels, we will embark on a dangerous journey and risk getting nothing in the end. Maybe there is no light at the end of the tunnel, but it is enough for this fascinating story to light our way. Amir Alagić was born in 1977, in Banja Luka. So far he has published the novels The Sacravenges (2016), Hundred Years' Childhood (2017), and Tunnels (2019), and the short story collections Under the Same Sky (2010), and The Lines Which You Call Rivers. He published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a screenply for the short feature film Toying, or a Broken Water Heater (2012). He lives in Pula.

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Askance Thrillers. Music in the Age of Hi-Fi
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Askance Thrillers. Music in the Age of Hi-Fi

Napetice iskosa. Glazba u doba hi-fia

Author(s): Aleksandar Mihalyi / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Soviet music; Russian music; Estonian music; New fascination with sound; Experimental music; Global mapping; Improvised; Authenticity; Alchemy of Top list; Urban aboriginal; minimal; Nordic;

Askance Thrillers is a voluminous collection of texts on music written by the radio host and editor Aleksandar Mihalyi. Why Askance Thrillers? Because the music scene is so divergent (judging by theoretical texts and the heterogeneity in style and genre), that it blocks an easy access to its listeners, except for an exclusive access to individual groups. Simply put - each of the existing groups has its theoretical logistics that is dedicated to themselves, and that ignores the existence of others. Inside the groups and especially between them, there is a tension that is being hidden or heightened. If there was no intensive, strong and diverse music or audio creative scene behind this (with numerous participants and manifestations), these texts would not exist. The disunity is a consequence of the lack of a dominant creative model, and, paradoxically, that is the reason we have such a rich and pluralistic scene. How good it is and what is good about it is left without clear and unambiguous answer. The scale of value is established inside the borders of a group or an ism. The book shows the exceptional wealth offered by the contemporary music scene in its possible development. Never in the history has an individual been offered such a divergent scene of the contemporary music: Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Ton Koopman, Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass, directed by Robert Wilson and performed by his ensemble, In vain by Georg Friedrich Haas performed by Klangforum from Vienna or vocal performances of Ami Yoshida. What they have in common is the shock of the new or a dedication of excellent musicians, and reaching the cultural, interpretational and perceptive limits. We are contemporaries with all that! This book is also a kind of a Baedeker that will help you get an insight into what is going on, and who are the protagonists. Lastly, it will provide recommendations on what to choose to listen, watch and read among individual types of expression. The book is written to affirm the creation of order and quicker access to today’s music scene. Even the confusion of terms is too big, and restoring the order is Sisyphean task. For example, if you read that a composer belongs to eclecticism, postmodernism, polystylism, somewhat to Russian mysticism, spiritual minimalism, and that he has all the familiar characteristics of his generation, what do you expect to hear? This book offers an essential survey of the contemporary recorded music from early polyphony to laptop music. It is a guide for today’s music scene. Aleksandar Mihalyi was born in 1949, in Zagreb. He is a long-time editor of the discophilic magazine WAM. For twelve years he worked as a host and an editor of radio shows dedicated to the contemporary music on the Croatian Radio's Third Programme.

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Beehives
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Beehives

Košnice

Author(s): Ružica Aščić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: melancholy; hopelessness; passivity; family play; inertness; empty lives;

The dramatic trilogy Beehives by the award-winning author Ružica Aščić places in the centre of each play one family with their key problems. The protagonists want more from their life than just passively going with the flow, but their endeavours face the opposition of their community that pushes their desires in the area of unacceptable. Because of the circumstances the characters become apathetic, and too weak to change their situation. The atmosphere of emptiness and hopelessness, realised through apparently empty dialogues, emanates strongly from the texts, and wraps the reader like cobweb. The plays show a reverse gradation of the lack of willpower, and weakness, beginning with the first one, where the desire is clearly articulated but hits the wall repeatedly. In the second play, there is no desire anymore, just the sense of impossibility of realising any closeness. The third play is dominated by the general prohibition of love and humaneness. Ružica Aščić creates Antonioni-like atmosphere of desert where one has difficulty with finding a landmark, not to mention an oasis. Ružica Aščić was born in 1987. She published the short story collection The Good Days of Violence (2016). For the plays It Grows Inside of Me and Beehives she won the »Marin Držić« Award. She has published short stories in numerous Croatian magazines and one of them was included in the anthology Without Doors, Without Knocking: New Croatian Writers of Fiction.

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Antinomies of Modernity
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Antinomies of Modernity

Antinomije moderne

Author(s): Goran Gretić,Maroje Višić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: modernity; ethics; Hamlet; Wagner; Europe;

Antinomies of Modernity brings seven stand-alone studies on some important issues of the philosophy and ethics of modernity. Its focus is on Europe and on the issues of national and state sovereignty, i.e., how peaceful coexistence of states can be established and maintained. These are topics that are decisive for the theoretical and practical resolution of the crisis of the modernity.

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Trade Unions between Labor and Capital
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Trade Unions between Labor and Capital

Sindikati između rada i kapitala

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Slovenian,Serbian

Keywords: trade unions; labour; labour rights; trade union mobility;

This edited volume seeks to address the current issues of trade unions, trade unionism and labour, of its present and of its future. It is divided into three parts: I. Workers’ dilemma - the crisis of the trade union; II. Trade unions and workers: case studies of BiH, Croatia and Serbia and III. Trade unions in the social teachings of the Catholic Church. The book offers sociological, historical, philosophical, and political science and activist views on labour, trade unions and capital. Contributions use case studies, surveys, interviews, content analysis, discourse analysis, and analysis of documents to bring new and relevant findings. The articles also propose some solution models to the current crisis. This collection holds valuable lessons for both union leadership and membership.

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The Croatian Old Catholic Church between Zagreb and Belgrade: History between 1923 and 1941
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The Croatian Old Catholic Church between Zagreb and Belgrade: History between 1923 and 1941

Hrvatska starokatolička crkva između Zagreba i Beograda: Povijest od 1923. do 1941.

Author(s): Mislav Miholek / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Croatian Old Catholic Church; Old Catholic Church; Union of Utrecht; Roman Catholic Church; Croatia; Yugoslavia; Stjepan Radić;

The Croatian Old Catholic Church between Zagreb and Belgrade is a book about the history and development of Old Catholics in Croatia and Yugoslavia during the 1920s and 1930s. The process of the creation of the Church is essentially connected with the political situation between the two world wars. The book portrays the emergence of the Croatian Old Catholic Church after the First World War within the European and local context. The church arose from the rebellion of part of the Croatian Roman Catholic clergy who demanded reforms of the Catholic Church in Croatia, such as the introduction of the vernacular language into the liturgy, the abolition of celibacy, a greater role of the laity in church life, and a weakening of priestly discipline, which the higher church hierarchy refused. Although the church was created after the First World War, the book shows how important organizers and founders of Croatian Old Catholics were already present on the political and ecclesiastical scene during Austro-Hungarian Empire and how the process of creation is connected with the events of the nineteenth century, when Croatia tried to separate itself from Hungary and from the Hungarian bishops. The development of parishes on the ground throughout Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Vojvodina is described; the relationship of the top of the church with the state authorities in Belgrade and Zagreb is shown, as well as the relationship with the most important Croatian political party of that time, the Croatian Peasant Party headed by Stjepan Radić. Radić, as the leader of a broad popular movement, was an ardent Catholic, but in constant conflict with the local Roman Catholic Church leadership. The Croatian Old Catholic Church was originally part of the Union of Utrecht, but just as it was created in a schism with the Catholic Church, it also split within itself and from the Union of Utrecht. Despite all mentioned difficulties, the Croatian Old Catholic Church managed to establish itself in throughout Yugoslavia. Its followers were Roman Catholics who, due to various reasons (political and personal), converted to Old Catholicism. Finally, most of the Church perished in the Second World War during the Axis occupation of Croatia and Yugoslavia.

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The Culture of Decline. Decadent Characters in Croatian Literature in Fin de Siècle
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The Culture of Decline. Decadent Characters in Croatian Literature in Fin de Siècle

Kultura propasti - Hrvatski književni dekadenti fin de sièclea

Author(s): Martina Kokolari / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: literature; decadence; culture; Croatian literature;

Although it is a difficult task to write comprehensively about decadence, considering the variety of its manifestations, the intention of this book is to show in what ways decadence as a thought pattern and mental disposition, extremely typical of the European fin de siècle, manifested in selected works in Croatian literature at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Dealing primarily with the decadent characters, who are considered to be one of the most common characters in the Croatian literature of that period, the author observes decadence as the main mechanism in the typology of male characters: it is the disintegration of identity integrity, awareness of the meaninglessness of the world, specific feeling of inferiority. Read within the frame of fin de siècle historical scepticism and the mal de vivre phenomenon, the analysed works reveal anxious, lost, paralysed characters, who face the nothingness of the world and the consequent inability to establish one’s own identity. Even though the idea of historical decline is by no means characteristic of the 19th century, no other period had such a reputation for pessimism as the fin de siècle. Warning of the complexity of the relationship between literature and extra-literary reality, in order to show by concrete examples how the writers fictionalized the moods of the time, the study presents the spiritual and cultural climate in which the idea of decadence developed and its philosophical foundations. Decadence in Croatia was built on the firm foundation of national psychology, and the reception of European spiritual currents was in many ways determined by the political situation. Withal, the decadence examined is specifically Croatian. Unlike Western decadence or the decadence of the Russian ‘superfluous man’, it is not inherent to members of the upper classes who live in wealth and, in their idleness, indulge in analysis and rumination, but is instead usually tied to ’common’ people, teachers, fallen priests, writers, or (semi-)intellectuals who, often also pressed by material worries, collapse under the weight of frustrating melancholia and anxiety. These dispositions are two sides of the same phenomenon: symptoms of neurosis as the starting- and end-point of all decadent identities. All characters from the analysed texts are burdened with the historical heritage of melancholia, a yearning for the unattainable and lost as well as an all-pervading sorrow, and anxiety, some unclear paralysing fear that prevents them from actively participating in their own lives. But, despite that, the study identifies decadence as a privileged state thanks to which an individual comprehends the foundations of their culture and society, seeing their meaninglessness and corruption.

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Cultural specificities in Ivo Andrić's novels. Analysis of translations into German and English languages
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Cultural specificities in Ivo Andrić's novels. Analysis of translations into German and English languages

Kulturemi u romanima Ive Andrića. Analiza njemačkih i engleskih prijevoda

Author(s): Frančeska Liebmann / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: literature; Ivo Andrić; traductology;

Im Buch Kulturemi u romanima Ive Andrića (Kulturspezifika in Ivo Andrićs Romanen) wird ein Vergleich der Kulturspezifika in deutschen und englischen Romanübersetzungen von Ivo Andrićs Na Drini ćuprija (Die Brücke über die Drina) und Travnička hronika (Wesire und Konsuln) angestrebt. Unter dem Begriff „Kulturspezifik“ werden die kulturspezifischen Gegebenheiten, die eine Kultur charakterisieren und die für sie spezifisch sind, zusammengefasst. Es handelt sich um Bezeichnungen für sprachlich und/oder kulturell Fremdes, um Wörter, Ausdrücke, Begriffe etc., die für den Leser, der aus der gleichen Kulturgemeinschaft stammt, innerhalb derer der Originaltext verfasst wurde, leichter zugänglich sind als für den Leser der Übersetzung.Kulturspezifika spielen eine wichtige Rolle in den genannten Romanen – ihre Protagonisten und ihre Weltanschauungen sind unauflöslich in den Rahmen der jahrhundertelangen gesellschaftlich-historischen Prozesse, die in Bosnien stattgefunden haben und die von Andrić meisterhaft beschrieben worden sind, eingebettet. Ohne Auseinandersetzung des Lesers mit dem äußerst komplexen religiösen, politischen und soziokulturellen Kontext Bosniens, dessen Verworrenheit sich deutlich in den zahlreichen Kulturspezifika widerspiegelt, sind diese Meisterwerke nicht zu verstehen. Deshalb ist die Aufgabe des Übersetzers, die Besonderheiten des bosnischen Kulturkreises dem nicht-bosnischen Leser näher zu bringen, von so großer Bedeutung. Außerdem wurden diese Romane (vor allem Die Brücke über die Drina) im englisch- und deutschsprachigen Raum als vorzügliche Lektüre für das Verständnis von Nationalitätsproblemen in Bosnien beworben – davon zeugen die paratextuellen Elemente von Andrićs Werken, die im Rahmen dieses Buches genauso detailliert analysiert wurden. Die Chroniken des Nobelpreisträgers dienen somit als Schlüssel für die Annäherung an das „vergessene Land“ und werden von der Leserschaft als repräsentatives literarisches Beispiel für die Begegnung und das Kennenlernen dieses exotischen Kulturraumes angenommen. Deshalb wird es für wichtig erachtet die deutschen und englischen Übersetzungen anhand der Kulturspezifika auf ihre Verschiedenheit hin zu überprüfen. Ziel der Arbeit war es zu erkunden, ob die kulturspezifischen Besonderheiten Bosniens von den verschiedenen Übersetzern identisch übertragen wurden.Das methodologische Gerüst wurde in Anlehnung an Pernilla Rosell Steuers Dissertation (2004) aufgestellt. Sie untersuchte den Roman von Günter Grass Ein weites Feld (1995) in fünf verschiedenen Übersetzungen. Dabei wandte sie die sog. „Transfer-Methode“ des Göttinger Sonderforschungsbereichs „Die literarische Übersetzung“ (SFB 309) an. Die von ihr entworfene übergreifende Skala von Vorgehensweisen zur Übertragung von Kulturspezifika, die ein Kompendium aus mehreren Theorien unterschiedlicher Übersetzungswissenschaftler darstellt und von Übernahme bis zur Auslassung reicht, bildete die Grundlage für diese Untersuchung.

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The Literary Republic of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 2022
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The Literary Republic of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 2022

KNJIŽEVNA REPUBLIKA JUGOSLAVIJA OD 1989. DO 2022.

Author(s): Boris Postnikov / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: post-Yugoslav literature; Pierre Bourdieu; sociolgy of literature; Boris Postnikov;

The book examines the analytical construction of the post-Yugoslav literary field, understanding it as a structured socio-literary space that provides a framework for interpreting the literature of ex-Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav authors beyond the perspective of national literature as the dominant literary-historical paradigm. In this regard, it relies on the reconstruction of various conceptions of a common Yugoslav literature in the so-called First and Second Yugoslavia, as well as on insights from the far-reaching shift from the study of national to the study of world literature at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.Its methodological foundation is found in Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of literature, which is first subjected to critical analysis. The post-Yugoslav literary field is then conceptualized in relation to its lines of continuity and points of discontinuity with the Yugoslav literary field, exploring the rearticulation of autonomous authorial positioning during the transition from socialism to capitalism.Following Svetozar Petrović’s idea of the creative and individual construction of a literary-historical vision and combining it with Bourdieu’s concept of the state of the field as the fundamental historiographical-periodization mechanism, The Literary Republic of Yugoslavia proposes a decadal division of post-Yugoslav literature into three periods: the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s, each marked by its own specific logics. Within this developed framework, literary texts and socio-literary phenomena are then approached beyond the national perspective and within a broader social context.

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