Naslov
Politics and literature of fin de siecle Yugoslavism: The Croatian Youth Movement (1895- 1903)

Autori
Tomašegović, Nikola

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Cultural mobilization: Cultural consciousness- raising and national movements in Europe and the world

Mjesto i datum
Amsterdam, Nizozemska, 19.09.2018. - 22.09.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Yugoslavism ; Progressive Youth Movement ; Vladimir Nazor ; literary criticism

Sažetak
The aim of this paper is to explore the Yugoslav ideology of the fin de siècle Croatian Youth Movement, most importantly its political and literary articulations and their mutual entanglements. While ideologically continuing the Yugoslavism espoused by Franjo Rački and Josip Juraj Strossmayer, the Youth Movement, being a part of the broader modernist movement in Croatia and Europe in general, employed this conception in a manner which signaled a radical break from the earlier political praxis of the Croatian elites. As its ranks were made mostly of Croatian students studying abroad, mainly in Prague and Vienna, they drew heavy influences from social and political movements in the Austrian half of the Monarchy, such as the Czech Progressive Movement, Masaryk's political realism, socialism etc. This, alongside changed political circumstances in Croatia proper in which the reign of Count Khuen Héderváry symbolized national oppression using the divide et impera methods to eliminate the threat of Serbo-Croat unity, inevitably led to the modification of the Yugoslav ideology mainly in its political operationalization. Offering a comprehensive critique of traditional Croatian politics which relied on notions of historical state rights, prominent members of the Youth Movement emphasized natural rights and democratic mass politics. This was followed by a struggle on the literary field as well. The broader modernist movement fought for artistic freedom against institutionally established romanticism and realism. Although this movement was stylistically and ideologically diverse, one of the aims of this paper will be to identify how Yugoslav ideology as espoused by the Croatian Youth Movement was employed and propagated in fin de siècle modernist literary works, such as The Slavic Legends (Slavenske legende) by Vladimir Nazor. By exploring this entanglement of the political and the literary, we can attempt to characterize fin de siècle Yugoslavism according to its relationship with its ideological predeccesors, its present social and political context and its future political and cultural goals.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Književnost

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