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Between The Rock and the Homeplace: Poetics of Bestiality

Nikola Petković’s contribution discusses Grgas’s foray into poetry, an unpublished manuscript of verse, and consciously sets itself against the presumption of the hierarchy of discourses in which poetry always comes up short against theory and scholarship. Petković discusses a seemingly supplementary status of Grgas’s poetry (in relation to his scholarly output) and unpacks a rich array of meanings presented in his verse, which is in turn beholden to his theoretical and philosophical orientations. The “i” that speaks in the poems places itself between languages (english and croatian), as coposed puts together lyrics composed from various inflections (of Zablaće, croatia, and america). Grgas, in his understated verses (the description of his verses as poem he refuses as too presumptuous), recreates local history, the homeplace, his family history as already fractured and destabilized by the infusion of grand narratives to which his poetics (of modesty, microhistory, and bestiality) is incipiently suspicious.

insularity, homeplace, cosmopolitanism, identity, poetry, microhistory

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