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Herstory of the (foreign) country: imaginary worlds of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

In this paper the imagery of Ivana Brlić Mažuranić's historical novel Jasha Dalmatin viceroy of Gujarat (1937) will be highlighted. This is the novel of character in which the young protagonist Jaša from Dubrovnik, Slavic slave in Constantinople, becomes the viceroy of the Indian province of Gujarat. The story takes place first in Constantinople and then in Gujarat, at the end of the 15th century, in the period which is marked by the Ottoman expansion and of the Portuguese conquest of West India. Instead of evoking exotic images, space and time of the radical Otherness for the most part become a scenery of (re)creating Slavenophilic ideologemes, which have traditionally been a vital part of the Croatian political discourse dominated by the learned male elite. Hence, these ideologemes and imagemes have been mediated into Brlić-Mažuranić’s novel mostly through literary, historical and political authority of her male ancestors: father Vladimir, who was a historian, and grandfather Ivan, Croatian governor and author of the The Death of Smail-aga Čengić. Thus the history ih her novel becomes the “home ground”, while the unconquerable present is in fact the true “foreign country”.

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić; Jaša Dalmatin; Slavenophilic ideologemes

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