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The Search for Identity: Croatian Narrations about Identity in the Last Decade of the 20th Century

Magdalena Dyras ; Jagellonsko sveučilište Krakov, Poljska


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Abstract

The profound cultural changes that took place in Croatia in the 1990s intensified identity discourse on an individual and a collective level. The attempt to construct a new identity in a crisis situation, following the fall of the previous system, was significantly affected by war shock and a general state of cultural trauma typical for cross-border spaces where diverse cultures clash. The problem of narrative is strictly connected with that of identity. “Narrative” is understood as epistemological
structure – a process which is the subject of changes in time. No society can be described without narration it creates.

Keywords

identity; narration; history; tradition; myth; story; antemurale christianitatis; small nation

Hrčak ID:

71702

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/71702

Publication date:

5.5.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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