Naslov
Space of Identity / Identity of Space: Representations of Space in Seventeenth-Century Dubrovnik Literature

Autori
Brković, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
13. Jahrestreffen des Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreises für Barockforschung in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel: "Die Erschließung des Raumes: Konstruktion, Imagination und Darstellung von Räumen und Grenzen im Barockzeitalter"

Mjesto i datum
Wolfenbüttel, Njemačka, 26.08.2009. - 29.08.2009

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
identitet; prostor; književni prostor; dubrovačka književnost 17. stoljeća
(identity; space; literary space; 17th century Ragusan literature)

Sažetak
The category of historical space is a major feature of Croatian baroque texts produced in seventeenth-century Dubrovnik literature. Images of historical spaces are mediated in literary discourse by localising the plot in concrete historical territories, through characters that act as signifiers of particular, primarily politically defined, spaces, or through individual enunciations. A special place within the fictional worlds of Dubrovnik residents is assigned to their city, that is, the Dubrovnik Republic, the image of which is positive in value and as a rule linked with the idea of the border as an ambivalent space of separation and encounter. The confirmation of this thesis can be found in, among others, canonical literary works, such as the baroque historical epic Osman by Ivan Gundulić, or the pseudo-historical tragicomedy Pavlimir by Junije Palmotić. In their discourse, the space of Dubrovnik acquires features of the border and space of encounter in the political, confessional, and cultural sense: it is a meeting/separation point between political forces – the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, and the Habsburg Monarchy – as well as between different religions – Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, and Islam. Such a concept will also produce the image of Dubrovnik as a space of freedom, peace, and a haven, which marks the entire Dubrovnik culture of the early modern period, and which represents a link to the then neighbouring Italian communal discourses. On the other hand, the representation of the space of Dubrovnik as Christian, Slovin, and European, as opposed to the foreign, non-Christian, enemy, Turkish space of the Other, follows the then European trend of discursive constructions of collective identities. It is thus possible to discern within the literary construction of the space of Dubrovnik concrete political circumstances (the Dubrovnik Republic was the only territory in the Balkans to have kept its autonomy in the seventeenth century, outside the direct governance of the Ottoman Empire), the ideology of the Dubrovnik nobility, ideas of Slovin fellowship (which are related to the ideology of Catholic renewal and the activities of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith), early modern concepts of civic humanism, and the Christian world view characteristic of Croatian, but European literary baroque as well.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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