Naslov
Socialist outlaws: the image of the outlaw in the folklore of Yugoslavian anti-fascist resistance

Autori
Drača, Vinko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, pp prezentacija, znanstveni

Skup
Migrations in visual culture

Mjesto i datum
Beograd, Srbija, 08.09.2016. - 10.09.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
outlaw; hajduk; captain leshi; yugoslav movie; epic poetry

Sažetak
Socialist outlaws: Image of outlaw in the folklore of Yugoslavian anti-fascist resistance In this paper I will try to describe the development and cultural transfers regarding image of outlaw in Yugoslavian folklore and literature. The study will encompass the period of Struggle for Liberation of the People (Narodno Oslobodilačka Borba) in Yugoslavia and the post-war period. The outlaw is the common hero of folk-poetry and literature in the Southeast Europe. During the Ottoman and Venetian occupation the characters of Hajduci and Uskoci, personified denizens of the so called “Balkan Penninsula” in the image of masculine, defiant and violent hero that still represents positive values of folk- custom, popular religion and justice for small man. During the Nazi occupation in the years of 1941-1945, the same models were present in partisan songs. Those songs, whether translated from Russian, created in the tradition of peasant folklore of Krajina or even written by established writers like Nazor and Kovačić sometimes evoked known figures of popular rebellions like Matija Ivanić or Matija Gubec. Following the tradition of “creation contemporary past” known folk heroes get transplanted and reimagined in modern times, becoming the historical symbols of socialist and anti-fascist struggle. This reimagining is also connected with great wartime and post-war Migrations during which the rural population from so called “passive zones” becomes rapidly urbanized. The urbanization of rural population transports the image of outlaw into the field of popular culture and contemporary literature. The historical continuity of class struggle and struggle against the foreign occupational power is constructed in contemporary folklore through the character of the outlaw. One of the known poets of the period Vladimir Nazor did same to cement his own Panslavic ideas and Yugoslavian patriotism by imagining the grave of known Slavic outlaw figure, Kraljević Marko under the Pula Colloseum in Istria. Such traditions served to encompass main ideological values of the partisan movement: socialism, anti-fascism and Yugoslavian brotherhood and unity transferred to common folklore of Yugoslavian nations. The same patterns were continued in post-war Yugoslavian literature and culture whether through Partisan movies like “Battle of Neretva” and “Walter defends Sarajevo” or through popular post-war novels “Sons of liberty” and “The Valley of Childhood” written by Croatian writer Josip Barković. In those representations communist partisan fills the same masculine outlaw role reserved for Hajduk or Uskok in popular and peasant folklore.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Povijest umjetnosti, Etnologija i antropologija

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