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AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE IN THE POETRY OF BORIS MARUNA OR HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE DESERT OF FREEDOM

Ivica Matičević ; Odsjek za povijest hrvatske književnosti Zavoda za povijest hrvatske književnosti, kazališta i glazbe HAZU


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Different aspects of American popular culture, from fast food to then-current art scene, are only some of the motives in the poetry of Boris Maruna who is, along with Viktor Vida, the best Croatian emigrant poet. Using humor, irony and satire while referring to the characteristic symbols of the country in which he ended up due to his interesting and nomadic destiny, Maruna in his poems dimensions his critical and disputing attitude towards America as the Promised Land. On the other hand, America is the country of concrete and organized political and social reality in which the adventurers of the mind could still find some respectable space of freedom, especially in terms of sexual liberalism and uninhibited physical behavior as a part of the popular culture, one of the frequent topics in Maruna’s poetry. His love for the homeland Croatia was never questionable. It was however expressed without any pathetic patriotic tones or weeping nostalgia, but with a critical and ironic detachment from the customs and habits of the Croats, thus significantly alienating Maruna from the typical matrix of both the Croatian emigrant poets and the writers in general.

Ključne riječi

contemporary Croatian poetry; American popular culture; Croatian emigrant literature; sexual liberalism; literature and ideology

Hrčak ID:

192204

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/192204

Datum izdavanja:

8.5.2017.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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