The Dalmatian Motifs of Miroslav Krleža: Space, Culture and Conflict in the Borderlands
The aim of this article is to deal with the disputable role Dalmatia played in the Croatian-Italian-Serbian borderlands, referring to the foremost Croatian and Yugoslav writer Miroslav Krleža. Although he is mostly associated with the Croatian North, i.e., historical Croatia-Slavonia, called someti...
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The aim of this article is to deal with the disputable role Dalmatia played in the Croatian-Italian-Serbian borderlands, referring to the foremost Croatian and Yugoslav writer Miroslav Krleža. Although he is mostly associated with the Croatian North, i.e., historical Croatia-Slavonia, called sometimes the Panonian cultural complex, his engagement in the discourse of Dalmatia after World War Two cannot be underestimated. In the period 1950-1951 Krleža prepared two exhibitions of medieval art (one staged in Paris as L’art médiéval Yougoslave and the other in Zagreb as Zlato i srebro Zadra) and wrote two introductions to their catalogues. In them, he builds a concept of a separate “South Slavic civilisation” that “negates” the bipolarism of Roman-Byzantine competing cultural models (Slavia Romana vs. Slavia Orthodoxa, according to Picchio). Referring to the spatial approach to literature, I attempt to situate the post-war Yugoslav discourse, radically confrontational and militaristic, within historical antagonistic discourses (Croatian-Italian-Serbian).
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| spelling | doaj.art-05fafff7ae8045ffbb648cce6bb3c9042024-01-30T14:57:02ZengFirenze University PressStudi Slavistici1824-761X1824-76012024-01-0120210.36253/Studi_Slavis-14967The Dalmatian Motifs of Miroslav Krleža: Space, Culture and Conflict in the BorderlandsMaciej Czerwiński0Jagiellonian University of Krakow The aim of this article is to deal with the disputable role Dalmatia played in the Croatian-Italian-Serbian borderlands, referring to the foremost Croatian and Yugoslav writer Miroslav Krleža. Although he is mostly associated with the Croatian North, i.e., historical Croatia-Slavonia, called sometimes the Panonian cultural complex, his engagement in the discourse of Dalmatia after World War Two cannot be underestimated. In the period 1950-1951 Krleža prepared two exhibitions of medieval art (one staged in Paris as L’art médiéval Yougoslave and the other in Zagreb as Zlato i srebro Zadra) and wrote two introductions to their catalogues. In them, he builds a concept of a separate “South Slavic civilisation” that “negates” the bipolarism of Roman-Byzantine competing cultural models (Slavia Romana vs. Slavia Orthodoxa, according to Picchio). Referring to the spatial approach to literature, I attempt to situate the post-war Yugoslav discourse, radically confrontational and militaristic, within historical antagonistic discourses (Croatian-Italian-Serbian). https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ss/article/view/14967KrležaDalmatiaCroatiaCommunist YugoslaviaItalyEast-West paradigm |
| spellingShingle | Maciej Czerwiński The Dalmatian Motifs of Miroslav Krleža: Space, Culture and Conflict in the Borderlands Studi Slavistici Krleža Dalmatia Croatia Communist Yugoslavia Italy East-West paradigm |
| title | The Dalmatian Motifs of Miroslav Krleža: Space, Culture and Conflict in the Borderlands |
| title_full | The Dalmatian Motifs of Miroslav Krleža: Space, Culture and Conflict in the Borderlands |
| title_fullStr | The Dalmatian Motifs of Miroslav Krleža: Space, Culture and Conflict in the Borderlands |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Dalmatian Motifs of Miroslav Krleža: Space, Culture and Conflict in the Borderlands |
| title_short | The Dalmatian Motifs of Miroslav Krleža: Space, Culture and Conflict in the Borderlands |
| title_sort | dalmatian motifs of miroslav krleza space culture and conflict in the borderlands |
| topic | Krleža Dalmatia Croatia Communist Yugoslavia Italy East-West paradigm |
| url | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ss/article/view/14967 |
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