Original scientific paper

THE HOLE IN THE IRON CURTAIN III

Joško Božanić ; Komiža

Abstract

Under the same title the author published six stories in Čakavska rič, 1992, num. 2. In this paper he completed his theme with next five stories and with a very detailed dictionary in which dialectal words are explained in standard Croatian language.
These stories the author had recorded in Komiža (the island of Vis), and in USA among the Croatian emigrants from Komiža. As guest of Croatian Fraternal Union the author visited in 1990 the collonies of emigrants from Komiža in San Pedro (California) and Bellingham (Washington State).
The theme of all these eleven stories is the the exodus from the Croatian islands after the Second World War when thousands of islanders excaped from the Iron Curtain to the free world.
These stories are told in the authentic island dialect spoken in Komiža. Allthough set in the morphology and syntax. The influence of English is only seen on the lexical level.
The author emphasizes the possibility of reception these nonfictional stories as having literary values. These stories belong to a type of memorate which is characterised by the anrator’s personal experience.

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Hrčak ID:

138530

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/138530

Publication date:

1.2.1994.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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