Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32004/k.58.5-6.3
ALBUM NOVEL: FORCING REMEMBRANCE
Emilija Kovač
orcid.org/0000-0002-6539-646X
; Učiteljski fakultet u Čakovcu
Abstract
Summary:
This paper examines the way memory/remembrance works in some various (social and private) moments (a war and post-war period, crisis, need for self-determination) and analyses a dialectic relation between the culture of remembrance and the culture of oblivion. Inside the wider context of post-modernistic accords and due to the depression caused by the local war atmosphere, there appeared some new narrative forms which try to define the problems of the actual moment (mostly national and individual identity at the end of the 20th and the first years of the 21st century: Ž. Čorak, D. Ugrešić, J. Horvat, M. Kirin ) and we propose its genre-related form to be album novel. The justification for distinguishing this form and engaging with it is evidenced by the emergence of new works, among which we single out recent novels (20s of the 21st centuary) written in the Kajkavian idiom (P. Sabolek, T. Ribić). The discoursive space of this form encompasses, on the one hand, the discourse of hope based on the authority of tradition and on the other hand the discourse of scepticism, as it was adopted by the critics of postmodernism (Lyotard, Derrida).
Keywords
: identity; culture of remembrance; Kajkavian idiom, standard Croatian language; synchronicity
Hrčak ID:
345224
URI
Publication date:
5.1.2026.
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