Original scientific paper

The Influence of Colonial Centres of Power and of a Postcolonial Framework on the Reading / Narration of Nation in works of Andrić, Krleža and Nazor

Boris Škvorc ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Split

Abstract

The text is about framing the cultural paradigm of the idea of
Croatness in literature and culture as an intertwining of Middle European,
Mediterranean, and Oriental „cultural paradigms“. Texts by Ivo Andrić,
Miroslav Krleža and Vladimir Nazor are studied because in the context
of utterenig the „difference“ they are consideret to be important authors
within the national corpus. In this light, the contribution of works of
Andrić and Krleža has already been studied whereas the works of
Nazor have not been studied to the same extent. However, in relation
to the narrative source of Croatian storytelling discourse, they provide
the possibility of defining the position towards Others who are clearly
visible at the surface level of reading and not dependently interlaced
with Us (by various inherent forms), as in the works of Krleža and
Andrić. Nazor“s allegorical (re)presentation of reality and its functional
reading, i.e. appropriation within the community (in Boškarina and even
more in Veli Jože), is modally different from Krleža“s ironic imposition in relation to Middle Europe (simultaneously and ironically affirmed
and grotesquely deconstructed) and from Andrić“s constructs of an
Oriental (and Croatian) Bosnia where different Others live, meaning
those who need no be read according to multilayered ideologies (and
stereotypical ideological, culturological and mythological models
impregnated into different times and reading spaces). Ideological
saturation is principally seen as a „state of affairs“ present before the
reading (and writing) of the literary texts discussed here (i.e. in horizons
of expectations saturated with ideologemes) and as the politics (plural)
of textuality as an external frame to literary (re)presentation. At the level
of the imaginary geography of intertwining, they act as the relevant
factors of discursive inclusion, to be read as something determined
and given at the moment of their formation but also as active in the
process of „reinventing“ the facts (the naturalization of texts, narratives
and (hi)stories) and then in the imposition (appropriation) of different
discursive reading paradigms of the texts from today“s perspective (one
saturated with different politics/poetics, with different connotations and
with new horizons of expectations). The horizon is seen as saturated
with the dispersion of the hegemonical interpretative community. It is
argued that the interpretative community is substantially influenced by
not only political but also media factors. All this is referred to in the
interpretation of literary texts and the authors“ intentions.

Keywords

Ivo Andrić; Miroslav Krleža; Vladimir Nazor; consensus; Middle Europe; Mediterranean; Orient; hybridization; postcolonial criticism; global and local identification; intertwining of cultural paradigms; interculturalism; appropriation and naturalization of texts; postmodernity and post-ethics; popular culture

Hrčak ID:

86362

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/86362

Publication date:

15.10.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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