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Food and the Imaginary Other

Author(s): Irina Perianova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The article considers a number of food-related topics and uses examples from a wide variety of sources,ranging from literary texts through journalistic articles to posts on the internet. Special attention is paid to“real” and imaginary food travels, which have become a fascinating topic of research in our time. Food controversies are also touched upon. It is argued that foreign foods may have mostly been a source of disgust in the past but have subsequently acquired symbolic capital and consuming them has come to be interpreted as a sign of sophistication. Also, food can be said to represent, in many ways, a new discursive currency, which may signal a desired or unwanted identity. In a lot of cases, however, the “original” of a particular food item may not exist and what is provided for consumption is a simulacrum. Cases of nostalgia for the food of the past are approached from this angle. Overall, the article aims at presenting the diverse cultural landscape of the present of which the food of the Other is an integral part.

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A semiotic analysis of representations of maids in Greek movies of the 1950s and 60s

Author(s): Thomas Bardakis / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

A variety of semiotic codes, for example, proxemics, kinesics, dress code, verbal code, usually construct specific representations in audiovisual culture. This paper explores the semiotic systems in synergy which seem to lead to consolidation of the social representations of maids in pop culture texts, such as Greek movies in the 1950s and 60s (the old Greek cinema era). The research questions explore the social representations which have been constructed and the ways in which the verbal and non-verbal signs of the maids can lead to the consolidation of their social image or even to a myth construction based on specific ideological perspectives. So, how do maids act in Greek movies in the 1950s and 60s? What does their performance signify? A semiotic analysis will examine all these questions through semiotic codes in those multimodal texts (Greek movies), selected from the field of the historically Greek pop culture texts. These verbal and non-verbal codes work coherently to translate the depiction of Greek society and culture and to convey connotative meanings.

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Mesjańskie imaginarium XXI wieku… Wizja mesjanizmu polskiego w przestrzeni public history. Wybrane przykłady

Author(s): Paulina Litka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

The revival of Polish messianism in public history is today an interesting issue for interdisciplinary studies within the framework of the new humanities. This is an important problem for thestudy of public history with respect to the influence of messianic myth on individual choices. Polishmessianism, present in the political, social, economic, and technological spheres, as well as in thewords of songs, computer games or video art, often not expressed directly, is becoming an importantelement of contemporary culture.

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Smakując inność. Pop-etnografia jedzenia w programie podróżniczym Szokujące potrawy

Author(s): Piotr Małczyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

The article analyses the travel discourse in a television programme Shocking dishes. This paper examines the representation of cultural differences in the media. The interpretation of image of Others is based, among others, on the cognitive theory of metonymy. Shocking dishes is a travel and cuisine television show hosted by traveller and anthropologist Jarosław Nowak. In each episode, Nowak focuses on the cuisine of a particular country (Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kazakhstan and Georgia), which is perceived as being disgusting, exotic or bizarre. He shows how the food is procured, where it is served, and he usually eats it. Cuisine serves as an example of metonymy for local culture. The traveller uses his anthropological knowledge to explain culinary and cultural differences. He also promotes cultural relativism. At the same time, the show is full of exoticization of Others by showing local communities through “shocking food”.

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Formy promowania czytelnictwa w kontekście kulturalno-społecznych funkcji biblioteki na przykładzie Przemyskiej Biblioteki Publicznej im. Ignacego Krasickiego

Author(s): Katarzyna Bednarz-Soja / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2022

Contemporary public libraries are centers of social life, places of meeting and exchanging thoughts, which contribute to consolidating social bonds. In recent years, the changes in culture and education made librarians face new challenges and the development of information society brought changes to the image of library institutions. Libraries are changing, influenced by the environment and the needs of their users; they eliminate barriers, add alternative forms of cultural and educational activity to their offer, as well as performing communication and entertainment functions. In order to promote readership and develop reading culture they get involved in carrying out social and culture-making tasks. Also the Public Library in Przemyśl is following contemporary changes and development tendencies, contributing to the rich cultural and social history of Przemyśl. It cooperates with the local community, observes the needs of the users, creates information, educational and cultural offer, extending and diversifying it depending on the readers’ needs. The Library in Przemyśl consciously creates its image. It is an open institution which plays an important role in the cultural and social sphere of the town and region.

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“Fra” Ivo Andrić (Predodžbe o bosanskim franjevcima u Andrićevom djelu)

Author(s): Ena Begović-Sokolija / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2019

The paper explores the perception of Franciscans in Bosnia-Herzegovinian literature for which Andrić’s literary, as well as essayistic and scientific opus is deemed meritorious/ guilty. Andrić’s ”Franciscan cycle” encompasses ten stories (U musafirhani, U zindanu, Ispovijed, Kod kazana, Napast, Trup, Čaša, U vodenici, Šala u Samsarinom hanu, Proba), written between 1923 and 1951. A comprehensive insight into Andrić’s ideas and perception of the Franciscans is completed when we add his novelette Prokleta avlija to the aforementioned stories, yet without losing sight of the Franciscan themes and characters in his other works (his novels Travnička hronika, Omer-paša Latas; stories Put Alije Đerzeleza, Za logorovanja, Mustafa Madžar, Mara milosnica, O starim i mladim Pamukovićima, Priča o vezirovom slonu; two texts of essayistic type: his doctoral dissertation Razvoj duhovnog života u Bosni pod uticajem turske vladavine (Development of Spiritual Life in Bosnia under the Influence of Turkish Rule), defended in 1924, in Graz, Austria, and his biographical essay dedicated to St. Francis – Legenda o svetom Francisku iz Asizija, and even his translation of Franjina pjesma stvorenja. Link between Andrić and Bosnian Franciscans in the paper is elaborated through three models of quotation relationships: as remembrance of the text, as remembrance of the genre, and as the figures of memory. Given that the aforementioned Andrić’s works are at the source of “Bosnia in Franciscan storytelling”, it is at the same time a reconstruction of the narrative about Bosnian Franciscans, but also an indication of the continuity of narrative about Franciscans in the opus of other Bosnian-Herzegovinian authors.

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За и против Андрића (Критичка рецепција писца у 21. веку)

Author(s): Miloš M. Đorđević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

The work illuminates an overview of 50 studies and a monograph of critics who support Andrićand those who criticize him in the 21st century. It shows how and why the humanistic vision of the turbulence of the bridges is rooted in a dehumanistic and political idea that would promote Andric as a destructive personality and proclaim his work as a greater Serbian and anti-Muslim project. An overview and analysis reveal that new critics of Andrić, whether affirming or absolutely disputing, strives to emphasize the problematization of an increasing number of themes from the whole of Andric’s opus. The process of fundamental analysis began with Vučković’s BIG SYNTHESIS a half century ago and continues with new doctoral theses and the realization of scientific projects. The most important project in this century is the scientific project of professorBrankoTošović at the University of Graz: Andrić Initiative – Ivo Andrić in the European context / Andrić-Initiative – Ivo Andrić I meuropäischen Kontext (2007–2018). New scholars discover the essence of literary criticism and its social significance. Disputes that can be reduced to the formula: for and against Andric, which we have marked – essentially prove it.

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Językowo-kulturowa wspólnota wsi słowiańskiej – założenia projektu badawczego

Author(s): Jerzy Sierociuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

This article presents the issue of synonymy in dialects. The phenomenon is viewed in acontext of contemporary dialectal lexicographic descriptions and the abounding material excerpted from acorpus of a dialect spoken in a single village in Wielkopolska (bukówiec Górny, Leszno county). If we agree that synonymy is a stylistic phenomenon, c h o i c e gains in importance as the prerequisite for a synonymic relation. The presented analyses indicate that a proper synonymic relation in dialects oc-curs only on the level of idiolects.

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Телевизијски интервјуи Иве Андрића

Author(s): Vuk M. Đorđević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

The topic Interviews of Ivo Andric on the electronic media is challenging because through this analysis we reach new forms and insufficiently explored work of the writer’s personality and his critical view of the world and the media. From the research aspect this topic is significant because the interviews on electronic media, and the paper explores only television interviews, uncover now facts important for the understanding and interpretation of Andric’s work and persona. They show how the writer had wisely distanced himself from the impassioned Yugoslav daily politics and primitivism and remained a gentlemen in comparison to his contemporaries – not just as a great writer, but also through his relationship with the media.

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Individualni i kolektivni presjek izvora tragičnosti u Andrićevim romanima Prokleta avlija i Travnička hronika

Author(s): Olga Vojičić Komatina / Language(s): Montenegrine Issue: 2/2019

The subject of this paper is the interpretation of individual and collective sources of tragedy in the novels written by Ivo Andric The Damned Yard and Bosnian Chronicle. All the characters depicted in the novels belong to the chronotopos of Bosnia, and that affiliation is twofold - some protagonists belong to truly nationalized Bosnian offspring, by birth and a faith, and some are foreigners who, due to socio-historical circumstances, find themselves in the Bosnian cultural limbo. The belonging to a country which is not used neitherto the economicprogress, nor social changes, predisposes the collective tragicity of the characters, Bosnian inhabitants. Resistance to canons and various conditions of behavior and life creates individual confidential lines in their lives. Such a concept of life complicates the tragic situation in which they are tragic and those with Bosnian and non-Bosnian origin, both of them and others in a wider sense, are strangers in a specific chronotope of alienation.

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Sve/prostorna i vanvremenska ravan Andrićeve Proklete avlije

Author(s): Vesna Vukićević Janković / Language(s): Montenegrine Issue: 2/2019

Enclosure of the space and its demoniac materialisation, as contrary to the timelessness of spiritualization and humanization, are strongly reflected both on the frame and on the semantic layers of the central story. At the same time it suggests a free and an open reading process, which denies temporal definition of the story told and, at the same time, projects the space’s relative and flexible incorporation in the story. At this level, which is an important basis for contemporary critical perspective, we can talk about reactualization of certain contents and meanings of Andrić’s poetics and aesthetics, all the more for the fact that, naturally, they resist any attempt at a complete scientific decoding (as all the great accomplishment of human mind, principally, do).

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The New National “We” in the Slavia Orthodoxa Circle in the 20th-Century Balkans

Author(s): Jolanta Sujecka / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The article outline the development of the new national “we” in texts from the Slavia Orthodoxa area in the Balkans during both Balkan wars and World War I. The analysis will focus on the notion of народ [narod], which should be translated as people-nation and not people or nation, as is usually the case not only in the practice of translators but also very frequently in academic discourse. Thus, the notion of people-nation is considered here as an analytical key making it possible to present the problem put forward in the title, but also as an illustration of the Balkan perception of war and revolution within Slavia Orthodoxa. The analysis will encompass the poetry and articles of Bulgarian poet Geo Milev (1895–1925) as well as the barbarogenius concept developed by Ljubomir Micić (1895–1971), a Serb from the Military Frontier. The context that will serve as a point of reference will be the 19th century in both the Serbian and Bulgarian version. This seemingly broad space and time framework is essential to explain the change in how the notion of народ was understood, a change caused by the Balkan wars, World War I and the revolution and introduced by representatives of the Avant-garde. The panchronic perspective used in the analysis involves explaining contemporary cultural facts with the help of both synchrony and diachrony in the process of text analysis.

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Tko se, zapravo, boji Milene Mohorič? Biografija revolucionarke u postsocijalizmu

Author(s): Natka Badurina / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2019

The paper will examine narrative and nonfiction works by Slovenian author Milena Mohorič, characterised by her interest in the position of women in bourgeois society between the two wars and by her commitment to women’s rights within the communist movement. Her partly autobiographical novel Korenove Saše učna doba (1940) will be analysed, particularly as regards the debate between liberal feminism on the one hand and the socialist fight for women’s rights on the other. The tragic events of her life are the subject of the recent biographical novel Če delaš omleto (2014) by Slovenian author Lado Kralj. Kralj’s novel refers directly to Korenove Saše učna doba, but also continues the chronological line of the story, depicting the author’s misfortunes during the purges of the Jugoslav Communist Party. The main female character and the narrative procedures in Kralj’s novel (humour, heteroglossia, elements of the fantastic, the relation between the fictional and the documented) will be the matter of an examination. Futhermore, the relation to historical events and the comparison of Kralj’s novel with Mohorič’s fictional and nonfictional texts will be discussed in order to see if Kralj’s novel may be considered as stimulating or limiting mediator in remembering women’s historical trauma.

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Granica kao specifični modelativni prostor u romanima Zuvdije Hodžića i Huseina Bašića

Author(s): Ethem Mandić / Language(s): Montenegrine Issue: 2/2019

The paper Border as a Specific Modelative Space in the Novels of Zuvdija Hodžić and Husein Bašić concerns itself with presenting some of the manifestations of the border phenomenon in the novels of Husein Bašić and Zuvdija Hodžić. The border is one of the main motifs and modelative principles in the novels of these authors and one of the specifics of the literature of the Sandžak cultural-historical space. The author aims to show that this phenomenon is manifested in the works of the aforementioned writers through several forms of meaning-making, which are certainly not the only ones, but they encompass a certain range of meanings that can be found in the novels in question.

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Poetika romana Krivice Huseina Bašića

Author(s): Elbisa Ustamujić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2019

This paper deals with the poetics of the book series “Krivice 1–2” and “Krivice 3” by Husein Bašić. “Krivice” are new-history novel-chronicles about World War II, revolution, implementing a new authority and the Informbiro Resolution in Sandžak. The title comes from an ideological stereotype “Turkish blame” used to, in an epic culture of hatred and revenge, grant amnesty to persecutions and crimes committed against Bosniaks who, after the Ottoman Empire receded, found themselves in a position of an unwanted Other, suffering in every Balkan war. The narrator is a distanced analytic and chronicler of events, who documents by citing archival material, literary, newspaper and diary texts, proclamations, letters etc., as well as introducing living people and historical figures in a role of political and cultural witnessing. The modus of narration is subordinate to the objective of truthfulness of witnessing through dialog, direct and indirect speeches from the characters and free indirect speech which includes the author’s attitude with an ironical deflection. Showing and reporting connects intertwined scenic displays of national-politic and social happenings, imprinting via method of montage into a mosaic map of a complex historical situation. Episodic sequences of psychological dramas and traumas are told with a lyrical expression and a dramatic charge. A nice humoristic and relaxing irony permeates the entire narrative, in which the discourse of power of the Party is strongly ironized, as well as the discourse of every ideological practice.

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“Bosanskohercegovačke književne teme” Midhata Begića i problem određenja književnosti u BiH

Author(s): Sanjin Kodrić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2012

The paper discusses the approach to the “Bosnian-Herzegovinian literary topics” offered in the literary-critical work of Midhat Begić, an author who, in many ways, can be considered one of the founders of modern Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Bosniak literary studies, as well as contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian literary comparatistics. In doing so, the paper pays special attention to the way in which Begić defines BosnianHerzegovinian literary practice and its status in both integral-supranational and particular-national sense, as well as to the relation of this to currently influential ideas of intercultural literary history and theory of interliterary process.

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Bosanska (i) međukulturna književnost

Author(s): Zvonko Kovač / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2012

As evident already in its title, within theoretical and pragmatic horizon of contemporary intercultural literary studies, the article attempts to relate concepts of Bosnian-Herzegovinian and intercultural literatures (especially those of central South Slavic literary and literary-critical communication area). It discusses scope of certain terms (cultural studies, interculturality, Bosnian literature etc.), their theoretical justification, functional usefulness, their conceptual orientation as well as ideological backgrounds of methodologies which limit or persistently question them.

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Dva osnovna polazišta interkulturalnih odnosa u putopisima Z. Džumhura

Author(s): Mirzana Pašić Kodrić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2012

In this paper, the author has tried to point out intercultural nature of Z. Džumhur’s travelogues, which is generally achieved through: (1) visual historical elements in a given place which the narrator describes by his travelogue, and which are only just a motive for travel story, as well as (2) memory or so-called “knowledge” of the narrator, or in the frames of all that is his awareness of certain individuals and events, which are, again, only a motive for development of fictional narrative. This approach to Z. Džumhur’s travelogues illuminates travelogues of this author in a slightly different way, presenting them, in the field of intercultural understanding, as an interesting and topical literature, as well as one of great importance

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Svoja, žuđena, nikad zadobivena: Predodžbe Bosne u novijoj hrvatskoj književnosti

Author(s): Marina Protrka Štimec / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2012

Svoja, žuđena, nikad zadobivena: Predodžbe Bosne u novijoj hrvatskoj književnosti

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КОМПАРАТИВНА АНАЛИЗА ДЕМОГРАФСКИХ И ИДЕНТИТЕТСКИХ СВОЈСТАВА РУМУНА И ВЛАХА У СРБИЈИ

Author(s): Nada Raduški / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 24/2022

The position and preservation of the national identity of Romanians and Vlachs in Serbia are essential for bilateral relations between Serbia and Romania, but also for Serbia's progress in the process of joining the European Union. Adequate legal solutions and their effective implementation are needed for the full realiation of minority rights and freedoms, which creates preconditions for successful demographic, economic and cultural development of national minorities and their effective integration into society, but preserving their ethnic, religious and cultural characteristics. In that context, this research examined the demographic development of the Romanian and Vlach national minorities, and then the key determinants of national identity (origin, language, religion and customs) of Romanians and Vlachs in Serbia. A comparative analysis of the demographic characteristics of Romanians and Vlachs in Serbia shows that both minority communities, mostly inhabited by border areas (Romanians in eastern Vojvodina and Vlachs in eastern central Serbia), are characterised by low birth rates, a high mortality due to old age structure and consequent negative natural increase which, combined with a negative migration balance, results in a marked decrease in the total population (bearing in mind the significant changes in the census declaration of ethnicity, among the Vlachs). These population trends, along with the difficulty in predicting future migration movements of these ethnic communities and the stability of their national orientation, suggest a gloomy demographic picture of the Romanian and Vlach national minorities, which has numerous negative implications for the future economic, political, social and demographic capacity of Romanians and Vlachs inSerbia. A comparative analysis of the identity characteristics of the Romanian and Vlach national communities, ie their ethnogenesis, language, religion and customs as basic components of national identity, confirms the great disagreement in scientific circles as to whether Romanians and Vlachs are the same people. Regarding the origin of the Vlachs, the most realistic view is that all the above opinions are partly correct, i.e., that the Vlachs partly come from Serbs who took over the Romanian language and customs while living in Romania for a long time, that they are partly descendants of the indigenous Balkan population. Originally Romanians immigrated to Serbia. Ethnologists and linguists use similarities in language, which some consider very great and others symbolic, as crucial evidence for this or that theory, and the same can be said for very similar or completely different customs preserved by the Romanian and Vlach national communities in Serbia. All this unequivocally indicates that the current scientific research can be understood only as an initial contribution and incentive for further multidisciplinary study of this issue.

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