Andrea Zlatar-Violić
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804784023
- eISBN:
- 9780804787345
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804784023.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Croatian literature in the 1990s was marked by a series of questions—about cultural continuity and discontinuity, about changes in the genre system due to changes in the transitional economy and ...
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Croatian literature in the 1990s was marked by a series of questions—about cultural continuity and discontinuity, about changes in the genre system due to changes in the transitional economy and distribution, and about the emergence of new authors and individual poetics. During the last twenty years we have seen the increased quality of literary production and the creation of a new, relatively stable, reading public. The main themes of novels and short stories (which are the most popular genres) in the last few years have been the historical issues of cultural memory and cultural amnesia. How to face history, especially the postwar reality, is, for Croatian authors such as UgreŠić, Jergović, Drakulić, Sajko, Bukovac, Simić, BodroŽić, et al., primarily an individual ethical question which reopens the issues of guilt and responsibility.Less
Croatian literature in the 1990s was marked by a series of questions—about cultural continuity and discontinuity, about changes in the genre system due to changes in the transitional economy and distribution, and about the emergence of new authors and individual poetics. During the last twenty years we have seen the increased quality of literary production and the creation of a new, relatively stable, reading public. The main themes of novels and short stories (which are the most popular genres) in the last few years have been the historical issues of cultural memory and cultural amnesia. How to face history, especially the postwar reality, is, for Croatian authors such as UgreŠić, Jergović, Drakulić, Sajko, Bukovac, Simić, BodroŽić, et al., primarily an individual ethical question which reopens the issues of guilt and responsibility.
