Preliminary communication
Turks in the Maelstorm of Revival Movement in Dalmatia. The Images of Turks in Narodni koledar
Katarina Ivon
orcid.org/0000-0002-5696-7056
; Department for Teachers' and preschool teachers' education, University of Zadar
Abstract
Narodni koledar is an important annual calendar whose publishing accompanied the whole revival half of the 19th century in Dalmatia. This paper will analyze the articles published in the periodical in order to observe the typical, stereotypical notions that are being built on the Turks / Ottomans in this corpus. After the generalization of the stereotypical attribution that are associated with the Turkish entity it will be tried to establish the scale of values within which the found images exist. Considering that Narodni koledar was being published for 38 years, on the value scale the significant fluctuations in these images will be manifested; starting from a very negative initial attitude towards the Turks, which was inherited from Kačić to, from the former perspective, “the modern imagological reversal” which is certainly conditioned by the changing political climate in Croatia and Dalmatia. The article will confirm how heteroimages (perceptions of Others) may be ideologically “mobilized” and in the strong conjunction with the political and social turmoil of the time in which they occur. Images of the Turkish entity will ultimately confirm the known plurality of ideologies of the other half of the 19th century in Dalmatia.
Keywords
Narodni koledar (National calendar); 19th century; imagology; images of Turks; National Party in Dalmatia
Hrčak ID:
79520
URI
Publication date:
3.4.2012.
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