Čefuři v soudobé slovinské literatuře: Fužinski bluz a Čefurji raus!

Author(s): Iveta Bůžková / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

The coexistence of the majority Slovenian population and the immigrants from the southern states of the former Yugoslavia, who are derogatorily called chefurs (čefurji) in Slovenian, has long been a topic of discussion and, as such, has found its way into literature. The paper compares two major novels that revolve around this theme, Fužine Blues by Andrej Skubic and Southern Scum Go Home! by Goran Vojnović, and the differences and similarities in the way they approach this sensitive topic. In the introduction, the paper discusses theizbrisani, or the “erased”, which is a group of people heavily involved in the tensions between native Slovenians and chefurs. The main section of the paper presents and analyses the stereotypes around the chefurs and the Fužine housing estate in Ljubljana known for its strong presence of the chefur minority. The final part of the paper examines the unique language used in both novels.

Iz spominov

Author(s): Rajko Müller-Aci,Janez Vipotnik / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 1/1960

Objavljamo dva odlomka iz spominov Rajka Mullerja in Janeza Vipotnika, ki opisujeia napad na fašistično postojanko Dob na Dolenjskem 26. decembra 1942. leta. Opozarjamo bralce, naj preberejo še odlomek iz Šaranovičevega poročila v 5. knjigi VI. dela Zbornika dokumentov in podatkov o narodnoosvobodilnem boju jugoslovanskih narodov, in brošuro »Dob — fašistov grob¬«, ki jo je 1943. leta izdalo Glavno poveljstvo Slovenske narodnoosvobodilne vojske in partizanskih odredov. [...]

Kaplan Ivan Kretič in otroška pesmica v Cerknem leta 1937 ogrožata varnost italijanske države

Author(s): Boris Mlakar / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 1/2000

Based on archival documents, the most important being a preserved file in the fond of the Gorizia police office, the author, using the example of the parish priest Ivan Kretič in Cerkno, vividly presents a story illustrating the confrontations such as were typical in the 1930s between the Italian Fascist authorities and the Slovene clergy in the Primorska region. Kretič, by using the Slovene language and teaching his congregation national songs, which was seen by the Italian authorities as a deliberate attempt to hinder the Italianisation of the region, elicited a strong reaction from the entire Fascist ruling and repressive apparatus from Cerkno to Gorizia. Kretič managed to avoid punishment only by a hair's breadth. Yet because he continued with such and similar activities after he was transferred to the parish of Kojsko, he was sentenced to two years of confinement in southern Italy in 1939.

Književnost i umetnost u Jugoslaviji: (DIS)KONTINUITETI (1918 – 1992)

Author(s): Jana Gligorijević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2016

Koncept střední Evropy ve slovinské esejistice: příklad Draga Jančara

Author(s): Iveta Bůžková / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

The idea of Central Europe is a phenomenon emerging across different social scientific fields. The discussions about Central Europe (re-)emerged in the 1980s when a number of Central European writers, including Slovenian, began to deal with this idea under the influence of Milan Kunderaʼs famous essay. Among the Slovenian writers and journalists, the issue of Central Europe was discussed mainly by Drago Jančar who belonged to the authors supporting the idea of a common cultural area of Central Europe. The paper analyses Jančarʼs essay work in the context of other selected Central European authors such as Milan Kundera, Adam Michnik, Győrgy Konrád or Danilo Kiš. While at the very beginning, Jančar (like other authors) is in favour of the Central European idea, with hindsight he perceives the debates and visions of Central Europe with a certain reserve and prevailing scepticism can be seen in his texts.

Kozmopolitski klub

(I. nastavak)

Author(s): Aleš Debeljak / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 01+02/2003

Texts written by Aleš Debeljak: “UMJETNIK I ZAJEDNICA S ONE STRANE ESTETSKOG ISKLJUČIVANJA”, “NEMA »LIJEPE DUŠE« I »RUŽNOG SVIJETA«”, “AUTOMATSKA POLITIKA ESTETICIZMA”, “UMJETNOST KAO VIZIJA I SVJEDOČANSTVO”.

Kraj povijesti

Author(s): Evald Flisar / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 03+04/2003

Text written by Evald Flisar: “Kraj povijesti”.

KVANTITATIVNA ZNANOST O KNJIŽEVNOSTI I INTERPRETACIJA

Author(s): Miran Hladnik / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3-4/2020

The analysis of the author’s own past research has shown that digital tools do not have a significant role in contributing to new interpretations of the Slovene literary canon. However, when shifting the subject of interpretation from a single work to authorial opera, genre corpora, literary period or the entire national literature, it becomes clear how quantitative methods, stimulated by digitalisation of the cultural past, literary databases and digital tools play a vital role. Interpretations that consider the richness of data, generated by digital culture, are more trustworthy than the former ones. The price we pay for that is the refusal of clear encyclopaedic definitions and descriptions. Literary past, observed through the digital humanities’ perspective has a fuzzy development because the central phaenomena gradually fade in the multitude of rival or peripheral phenomena. Slovene literature is not represented by prominent authors and their famous works any more, it does not comply with dictation of the great national myth, i.e., the construction of the nation from the spirit of literature. Rather, it is considered as a random fact, a matter of serendipity. It is represented as the entire literary production on the Slovene territory, in Slovene as well as other languages. Due to special circumstances, it is different from the neighbouring literatures and it triggers new, nation-specific definitions of literary phenomena. New interpretations of Slovene literature are not only indebted to the use of digital tools, but also to the consequence of changes within the literary system itself. In its beginnings, Slovene literature was dedicated to the constitution and emancipation of the nation, while now it also legitimately fulfils other human needs and functions: cultural recreation, women and social minorities’ emancipation and mobilisation, escapism, self-reflection, self-therapy, testing of the alternative models of social behaviour, etc.

LE VISIONI DISTOPICHE DI BERTA BOJETU BOETA

Author(s): Irena Prosenc / Language(s): Italian Issue: 25/2022

This article examines two novels by the Slovene writer Berta Bojetu Boeta: Filio is Not at Home (Filio ni doma) and The House of Birds (Ptičja hiša), both published in the 1990’s. The two works depict dystopian societies focused on repression and aimed at generating systematic alienation. The plots are set in remote and isolated places (an island, a mountain, a prison, a brothel) whose inhabitants are enslaved and subjected to violence which mainly affects women. The denial of freedom that characterises these societies is one of the fundamental aspects of dystopian fiction. Despite the extreme limitation of their possibilities, the characters narrated by Bojetu find ways of resisting repression through painting, reading and the creation of human bonds, thus managing to escape from dystopian environments and keep their humanity alive.

LJUBAV, GRAD I RAT. ANALIZA MIKROSTRUKTURE (CLOSE READING) NA PRIMJERU RATNIH ROMANA DRAGE JANČARA

Author(s): Peter Scherber / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3-4/2020

The paper focuses on the micro-structural analysis, i.e., close-reading, of the selected literary texts. Close-reading is the opposite of distant reading that generally connotes analysis of a much larger corpus. Close-reading is an acceptable strategy for textual interpretation. This strategy includes, at first glance, some banal issues, such as the relationship between historically documented events and their literary (fictional) presentations, spatial data (in this case Maribor and its topography), and temporal data (linear or recursive). Furthermore, this procedure enables identification of a given genre, for example a cycle or some kind of a supra-text (in this case a novelistic trilogy). The analysis will show how the fundamental paradox embedded in Maribor, its Slovene-German past, is reflected in Jančar’s novels. Special emphasis is placed on processes, motifs, images, characters, events and even micro-texts present in Jančar’s short prose that later reappear in his novels in a new context. Jančar’s text that are studied are Severni sij (Northern Lights, 1984), To noč sem jo videl (I Saw Her That Night, 2010) and In ljubezen tudi (And Love Itself, 2017).

Machine-readable Descriptive Structures to Study Medieval South Slavic Scriptoria and Scribes

Author(s): Desislava Paneva-Marinova,Marco Scarpa,Marta Riparante,Maxim Goynov,Detelin Luchev,Lilia Pavlova,Lubomir Zlatkov / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

This paper outlines the development of machine-readable semantic structures, supporting the research and analysis of the manuscript works of the South Slavic scribes from the fourteenth century. Our hope is to reach and effectively exploit the vast amounts of knowledge about the digitized written heritage by providing means to semantically describe, structure, process, manage, visualize and analyze the data, greatly facilitating the research and study processes.

Matija Majar Ziljski i jegov "Узајемні правопіс славјанскі"

Author(s): Jan Vít / Language(s): Slavic (Other) Publication Year: 0

This is a chapter of the Interslavic reader which is a collection of working texts for teaching the Interslavic language. / Tuto jest kapitola iz čitateljnika, ktory jest spisok tekstov do učenja medžuslovjanskogo jezyka.

Matija Valjavec kot slovstveni folklorist

Author(s): Marija Stanonik / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 6-7/1984

Matija Valjavec can be considered one of the most important collectors of literary folklore in Slovenia and kaikavian Croatia. The rules of fieldwork which he followed could withstand, to a large extent, even contemporary professional critique. The purpose of this article is to present systematically Matija Valjavec's contribution to Slovenian and Croatian literary folkloristics. We should become aware of a task we still have in relation to Valjavec: to gather the folklore material which he published in various journals and other publications, and to republish it in a single volume in order to make his work more easily accessible to professionals, as well as to wider readership.

Medkulturnost v romanu Maje Haderlap Engel des Vergessens / Angel pozabe in strategija prevoda v slovenščino

Author(s): Silvija Borovnik / Language(s): Polish,Slovenian Issue: 1/2016

The article analyses the intercultural elements in Maja Haderlap’s novel Angel of Oblivion (orig. 2011, transl. 2012). The novel, based on familial autobographical foundations and discussing the suffering of Carinthian Slovenenes during the Second World War, is unique also because the author, herself a Carinthian Slovene, wrote it in German. This fact was harshly criticized by Florjan Lipuš in his novel Enquiry for the Name (2013). He labeled Haderlap’s book release as linguistic heresy. The novel was translated into Slovene by Štefan Vevar. In this article, his innovative translation solutions, with which he stressed the role of the Slovenian language in Haderlap’s novel, are presented. In his translation, he managed to preserve the bilingual, intercultural and even Carinthian dialectal elements of which the novel comprises and which make this novel Slovene. It belongs to the work of the authors that are marked by a double, intercultural identity.

Minimalizem in sodobna slovenska kratka proza

Author(s): Blanka Bošnjak / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 2/2018

Comparative analysis of the of the contemporary Slovene short prose awarded by the fable for the best short story collection, reveal some fundamental characteristics: the prevailing minimalism, from the perspective of the literary style, which is revealed through e.g. the dialogue discourse, mimetic speech with all linguistic specialties, short connections in communication between the characters and theming the subject’s identity crisis, interculturalism, intertwining of the rural and urban; the typology of the contemporary Slovene short prose is reaching new spheres (for example – Andrej Blatnik: Zakon želje, 2000).

Mladá slavistika II: Vnější a vnitřní vazby a souvislosti ve slovanských literaturách, jazycích a kulturách

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak,Czech

Young Slavistics II is the fifth consecutive publication in a series of annual publications of Doctoral students from the Department of Slavonic Studies in Brno. The book was introduced by a study from Prof. Ivo Pospíšil called “The Problem of the Coherence and Incoherence of Slavonic Literatures”. There are also nine studies by Doctoral students of different Slavonic fields, in which the students examine the issues of context and connection in Slavonic literatures, languages and cultures through the investigation of individual examples. Their research is based on dissertations currently being prepared. Therefore, the publication is a presentation of current research topics solved in Brno by young students of Slavonic studies and at the same time they indicate the trends which this emerging generation of researchers brings to contemporary Slavonic research.

Mladá slavistika IV: Výzkum slovanského areálu: generační proměny

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak,Russian,Czech

“Young Slavistics IV” is the seventh consecutive publication in a series of annual publications of doctoral students from the Department of Slavonic Studies in Brno. The book was introduced by a study from Prof. Ivo Pospíšil called “Generations in Literary Criticism, Their Fame and Traumas”. There are also six studies by doctoral students of different Slavonic fields, in which the students focus on specific chosen topics of Slavonic literatures, languages and cultures. Their research is based on dissertations currently being prepared. Therefore, the publication is a presentation of current research topics solved in Brno by young students of Slavonic studies and at the same time they indicate the trends which this emerging generation of researchers brings to contemporary Slavonic research.

Nadomak optimalne projekcije: Jugoslavija i opća teorija avangarde

Author(s): Lujo Parežanin / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2020

As the fundamental text for the study of artistic and literary avantgardes, Bürger’s Theory of the Avant-garde has been the subject of a wide and diverse critical reception. An especially contentious claim of Bürger’s is the one about the failure of neo-avant-garde art – a claim that cannot be separated from of his category of historical avant-gardes and the claim about the defeat of the pre-war avant-garde movements. Missing the construction of Bürger’s argumentation, different critics have pointed to different post-war artists and artistic movements which, through their work, revitalized avant-garde poetics with more or less success. However, by staying in the same framework of the Euroamerican capitalist West and its artistic system, these counterexamples could not offer a systemic intervention into Bürger’s theory. Due to its specific historical, social, and therefore cultural and artistic trajectory, the experience of Yugoslavia represents one of the possible points of departure for such an intervention. By focusing on existing interpretations of the relation between the Yugoslav avant-garde, neo-avant-garde and post-avant-garde, this article aims to show how the unique relation of the post-war avant-garde towards its tradition can contribute to the critical supplementation of Bürger’s theory and a more nuanced understanding of the possible relations between the neo-avantgarde and the avant-garde. In that sense, this article will try to show how the Yugoslav example is indispensable to a relevant discussion of artistic avantgardes in general.

Nemški prevod romana Antona Ingoliča “Na splavih” med Drugo svetovno vojno

Author(s): Mateja Ratej / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 15/2019

Avtorica se v kulturnozgodovinski študiji ukvarja z nastankom in simbolnimi branji romana Antona Ingoliča Na splavih med drugo svetovno vojno in tik po njej. Leta 1940 izdano delo tematizira splavarstvo na Dravi, ki je Ingoliča vznemirjalo že kot mariborskega dijaka. Pisatelj in učitelj na Ptuju se je leta 1937 med šolskimi počitnicami pod krinko flosarja (splavarja) pridružil dravskim splavarjem na enomesečni poti od Brezna nad Mariborom do hrvaškega Vukovarja, kjer je dodobra spoznal življenje in delo splavarjev, ki so po reki prevažali les. Zlasti se je posvečal socialnemu položaju flosarjev, ki so bili pogosto odvisni od samovolje lastnikov splavov. Ingolič je bil ob nemški okupaciji leta 1941 kot slovenski izobraženec že v prvem valu izseljen v Srbijo, kljub temu je njegov roman leta 1943 izšel v nemščini pod naslovom Die Drauflösser pri dunajski založbi Wiener Verlag, kar je bila sijajna gesta upora založnikov proti germanizacijskemu diktatu nemškega rajha, a tudi tiha zmaga izgnanega pisatelja.

Nevidljiva prašina

Author(s): Drago Jančar / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 07+08/2005

Short story written by Drago Jančar: "Nevidljiva prašina".