Naslov
America and the Non-European World in the Plays of Josip Kosor's “ Parisian Cycle”

Autori
Rafolt, Leo

Izvornik
Neohelicon (0324-4652) 33 (2006), 2; 181-199

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
interculturalism; modernism; stereotypes; antimodernism

Sažetak
Josip Kosor's dramatic work is well known to both Croatian and European readership and theatre public. First of all, common reader is well acquainted with the author's so called 'rural dramatic cycle' - especially his most 'specific' and the most appreciated modernistic play, Flame of Passion. This paper will try to interpret - using the critical concepts of literary anthropology, intercultural studies and theatre sociology - the so called 'Parisian phase' of his literary work, his intercultural dramas In Café du Dôme and Rotonda. After positioning his dramas in their cultural, historical and literary context, after analyzing their performative background, we will try to (1) discover the so called 'extraliterary alusiveness' that is present in Kosor's dramatic cycle, (2) read out some of the concepts of social, gender and, especially, ethnic stratification, as well as their function in producing cultural stereotypes about American and non-European, especially Far-Eastern world of the early twentieth century.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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