دانلود کتاب Nacionalizam i književnost: srpska književnost 1985-1995

The author firstly analyzed the following critical accusations against Serbian literature:mythological and epic foundations (traditionalism and anti-modernism); obsession with the national history and with the motif of Serbian people as eternal victim; domination of the collective and the ideological over the individual (populism); anachronistic romantic conception of the social function of literature.He estimated the corroboration and in-moderateness of these accusations, realizing thatany qualified judgment on the nationalistic role of the contemporary Serbian literature and on its responsibility for the recent Balkan war required systematic sociological research. Therefore, he tried to make a reliable list of the most-influential books in the Serbian literature in the decade 1985-1995.Then he constructed an appropriate hermeneutic procedure of interpretation and understanding of a documentary meaning of content and form of these literary works. Finally, he has reached the following findings: contemporary Serbian literature is really absorbed in history (because history still constitutes the contemporary social life in Serbia and in the Balkans in general); contemporary Serbian literature is occupied with unmasking of Yugoslav communist totalitarianism, so it is unambiguously – anticommunist; it is, almost without exception, anti-war oriented; the most-influential books of contemporary Serbian literature involve nationally or civic oriented world-view;it is possible that nationally oriented literary works (although they are mostly not militant), wrapped as a rule in traditionalistic realistic “closed” form, could have influenced - in a corresponding political use - the articulation of the Serbian national and nationalistic consciousness; civic oriented works, wrapped in an “open” modern or post-modern form, at this moment, could not - although they deconstruct national myths and stereotypes - neutralize the effects of the nationally oriented works; it is because in Serbia the audience predominantly communicate with a literary content (which is realized as a testimony of historical facts) and not with a literary form (which is a holder of artistic value and a moderator” of any content). Therefore, the educational and cultural policy needs a long-term program of cultivating the taste through the form of authentic works of art, which could recommend civic, tolerant and intercultural Serbia to the democratic world - both in a literary, cultural and even political sense.Serbian literature quite legitimately - as any literature in general - absorbs its mythological heritage, and plays quite legitimate role in the process of constructing the Serbian national identity as a kind of “epic identity” (during the 19th century). Contemporary Serbian literature, especially in civic oriented works, discusses and deconstructs the epic-mythological foundations of the national consciousness and national stereotypes. What is quite problematic is the tendentiousness in some nationally oriented literary (rather sub-literary) works that allow - with their own non-transformedideological content and a populist literary manner - to be nationalistically instrumentalized. What is quite non-legitimate is an ideological reconstruction and political use of the literary mediated myths, the anachronistic epic identity, the motif of the Serbian people as the eternal victim and the historical-political maps.However the above-mentioned findings might be estimated, the experience has taught us that any general conclusion concerning contemporary Serbian literature as a whole is not recommendable. These findings might support specific judgments on national and, probably, nationalistic tendency of a single literary or sub-literary work and those on possible extra-literary responsibility of their authors - of course beyond a politically profitable stereotype of a collective guilt. Any judgment concerning political and military actions inspired or allegedly inspired by nationalistic ideology involved in some literary works does not belong to the scientific research of this kind.