Original scientific paper
Between the National Identity and Ideology. Gradišće kalendar in 1946.
Robert Bacalja
; University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Katarina Ivon
orcid.org/0000-0002-5696-7056
; University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
The paper analyses the first issuing year of Gradišće kalendar (i.e. Burgenland calendar), started and edited by Ignac Horvat until his death (1973). Horvat chose to print the newly founded publication in Croatia because the conditions for printing in Austria were not appropiate. The affair brought about somewhat of an editorial challenge, given that the situation in Croatia had changed under the influence of the new state system and communist ideology. The calendar had a significant role in the development of the Burgenland-Croatian literature and culture of the post-war period, especially because of the socio-historical context in which Croats found themselves in Austria. With his literary contributions and his contemporaries' contributions, Ignac Horvat laid the foundation for the newer Burgenland-Croatian literature, whilst affirming a number of new names that have marked the literature of Burgenland to this day (Ana Šoretić, Jurica Čenar). In its thematic analysis that took on the perspective of minorities, Gradišće kalendar offered a recognizable cultural imaginarium oriented towards the native culture, thus confirming the undeniable role of Ignac Horvat in the preservation and promotion of the Croatian national identity.
Keywords
identity; ideology; Gradišće calendar, Ignac Horvat, Burgenland-Croatian literature
Hrčak ID:
254094
URI
Publication date:
1.3.2021.
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