Arti musices, Vol. 43 No. 2, 2012.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
Kuhač's Travel Account on West Hungarian Croats in the Context of Earlier Philological and Ethnographic Research
Andrea Sapunar Knežević
; Odsjek za povijest hrvatske kniževnosti HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Marijana Togonal
; Visoka škola za odnose s javnošću i studij medija Kairos, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In 1878, Franjo Ksaver Kuhač published his travel reminiscences about the Burgenland Croatian-speaking area, in Vienac [a Croatian literary magazine] entitled Medju ugarskimi Hrvati (putopisna crta), [Among Hungarian Croats — A Travelogue]. Although the purpose of his journey among the Hungarian Croats was purely scientific, he published the results of his research in travelogue form and intended it for a wide reading audience. The travelogue was published serially in Vienac, in eight issues, in October and November 1878. Kuhač’s choice of travel is an indication of his enlightened patriotism and patriotic orientation and of the ideological framework of his views. During the period of Croatian Romanticism, travelogues were dominated by homeland itineraries and an interest in language, culture, customs, cultural heritage and national history. Following the ideology of Croatian Romantic travel writers, founded on the affirmation of Croatian national values, the goals Kuhač set for his journey were to search for and broaden insights into the life and culture of Croats living outside the national borders, and to communicate these new insights to the parent nation.
Examining Kuhač’s work within the framework of earlier studies and findings, it should be said that, although neither national minorities nor their circumstances were ever publicly discussed or written about in a multinational state such as Austria or Hungary, in the second half of the nineteenth century the Croatian cultural milieu had certain knowledge about the cultural heritage of the Burgenland Croats. With his research and collected material, Kuhač followed in the path of Stanko Vraz, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski and Fran Kurelac, broadening and supplementing the knowledge the Croatian motherland had about West Hungarian Croats, as well as promoting consciousness of the interconnectedness of the Croatian cultural heritage at home and abroad. With these research results and insights, based on his personal experiences and critical attitude towards sources, Kuhač laid valuable groundwork for further investigation of these issues.
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23.11.2012.
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