Original scientific paper
POLITICAL CARICATURE AND IMAGE OF "KHUEN'S SERBS" FROM THE END OF 19th CENTURY IN CROATIA
Natalija Rumenjak
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The political caricature in the 19th century in Croatia, as one of the richest sources in the creation of national stereotypes and formation of urban public opinion have scarcely been researched in the Croatian historiography. This article deals with the stereotype perception of the image of "Khuen 's Serbs" on bas is of contemporary Croatian and Serb satirical magazines that were published during the twenty-year period of the rule of the Croatian banus (vice-roy) Karoly Khuen-Hedervary in Croatia (1883-1902). The article deals with the stereotype image of the elite group of the Serb ethnic minority, which through the Serbian Club and ruling People's Party in the Croatian Parliament had supported the pro-Hungarian and anti-Croatian regime in the mentioned period without any reservation.
A comparative analysis of the Croatian and Serb caricatures shows how negative political, social and national stereotypes about the "Khuen's Serbs" in Croatia during that period shaped both the Croatian and Serb opposition public, even though not to an equal extent. The caricatures of the "Khuen's Serbs" in the Serb magazine Vrač Pogađać (Soothsayer) had on a symbolic level far more credit for forming a generally negative stereotype about all Serbs in Croatia; they regularly consisted of an explicit Serb identification, review usually the whole collective and more frequently bring the Serb Club in a direct relationship with the hated pro-Hungarian banus K. Khuen-Hedervary. The research disputes the far-reaching Serbian historiographic thesis that emphasize the solely Croatian origin of the negative national stereotype in the pro-regime Serb elite as "source of genocide" undertaken over Serbs in Croatia in XX century.
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207212
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Publication date:
4.12.2000.
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