Politička I Društvena Tranzicija Kao Tema Suvremene Hrvatske Proze
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Sveučilište u Zagrebu Filozofski Fakultet Boris Koroman POLITIČKA I DRUŠTVENA TRANZICIJA KAO TEMA SUVREMENE HRVATSKE PROZE DOKTORSKI RAD Mentor: Dr. sc. Dean Duda, red. prof. Zagreb, 2014. University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Boris Koroman POLITICAL AND SOCIAL TRANSITION AS A THEME IN CONTEMPORARY CROATIAN FICTION DOCTORAL THESIS Supervisor: Dean Duda, PHD, full professor Zagreb, 2014. Informacija o mentoru Dr. sc. Dean Duda redovni je profesor na Odsjeku za komparativnu književnost na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu gdje od 1990. radi na Katedri za teoriju i metodologiju proučavanja književnosti. Autor je dvije knjige iz užeg područja svog znanstvenog interesa, kulture putovanja - Priča i putovanje: hrvatski romantičarski putopis kao pripovjedni žanr (Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1998.) i Kultura putovanja: uvod u književnu iterologiju (Ljevak, Zagreb, 2012.). Drugi značajan znanstveni interes predstavljaju kulturalni studiji koje je u hrvatskom akademskom polju promovirao na Odsjeku za komparativnu književnost i na Poslijediplomskom studiju književnosti, izvedbenih umjetnosti filma i kulture objavivši i knjigu Kulturalni studiji: ishodišta i problemi (AGM, Zagreb, 2002.) te priredivši zbornik Politika teorije: zbornik rasprava iz kulturalnih studija (Disput, Zagreb, 2006.). Uz to autor je i nagrañivane knjige eseja Hrvatski književni bajkomat (Disput, Zagreb, 2010.) u kojoj se bavi suvremenim hrvatskim poljem književnosti i kulture te suautor Malog leksikona hrvatske književnosti (Naprijed, Zagreb, 1998.). Autor je brojnih članaka koji se bave kulturom socijalizma, kulturom putovanja i artikulacijama književnosti u razdoblju tranzicije. SAŽETAK Suvremena hrvatska proza oblikuje se u velikoj mjeri modelima koji se mogu prepoznavati kao mimetički tako da se u kritici neprecizno nastoji obuhvatiti terminima "stvarnosne" ili "urbane proze". Premda se deklarativna mimetička nastojanja u tekstovima raznoliko artikuliraju, može se primijetiti kako dobar dio ove književne proizvodnje na neki od načina nastoji uspostaviti odnos prema izvanknjiževnoj stvarnosti. Imajući u vidu složen odnos stvarnosti i književnosti, u radu se pristupilo tekstovima koji tematiziraju upravo tranzicijsku sadašnjost, grañom koja obuhvaća tridesetak reprezentativnih proznih tekstova, uglavnom romana. Metodologija je organizirana tako da obuhvaća uobičajene pristupe prozi iz pozicija discipline znanosti o književnosti, formalne, poetološke i naratološke analize iz kojih se prepoznaju problemi koji interpretacijski otvaraju okvire šireg polja humanistike, s posebnim naglaskom na kulturalne studije. S epistemološkim okvirom književne teorije i humanistike oblikovalo se tako nekoliko problemskih žarišta koja opisuju konstrukciju fikcionalnog tranzicijskog imaginarija: pripovijedanje, priča, identiteti, prostori i vrijeme u tekstovima te problemi široko shvaćenog pojma medija i medijacije. Analizom i interpretacijom po poglavljima opisana je kompleksna predodžba tranzicije u književnosti, tranzicijski imaginarij složen okupljanjem podudarnih narativnih elemenata koji su u radu interpretirani iz šireg okvira humanistike. Ta predodžba otkriva niz povezanih elemenata od kojih valja izdvojiti: tranziciju kao traumatično iskustvo društvenog rasapa bez dovršetka, dominaciju pripovjedača iz pozicija grañanstva, problem pojma "urbanosti", modernistički i heterotopski oblikovani prostori, vrijeme permanentne liminalnosti , identifikaciju nasuprot čvrstim identitetima, identitarne opreke, devalvaciju identiteta otpora, probleme medijacije i hipermedijacije . Na drugoj se razini izdvojeni elementi imaginarija okupljaju i otvaraju nova problemska žarišta i pitanja vezana oko pojmova stvarnosti, mimeze, modernizma i modernosti, grañanstva i ideologije. Hrvatska književnost tranzicije i o tranziciji prepoznaje to iskustvo kao složen ideološki mehanizam u kojem se odvija istovremen proces desubjektiviziranja modernističkih subjekata povijesti kako bi se konstituirali i interpelirali subjekti tekućeg modernizma , lišeni moći. ② ABSTRACT Contemporary Croatian fiction functions mainly within representational models that can be described as "mimetic". Relevant literary criticism inaccurately tends to define that fiction as "real-life" ("stvarnosna proza") or "urban." Although those mimetic tendencies are in practice differently articulated, a significant part of this literary production tends to establish some sort of relation to the extraliterary realm. Political and social transformations in the nineteen- nineties represent a time of radical historical change, rather challenging for fictionalization. Considering the complex relation between literature and reality, this research focuses on the contemporary fictions about the "reality of transition". The research is based on the analysis of thirty contemporary fiction books, mainly novels. Methodologically, the first level of analysis takes as its object the poetics and narrative structures of the texts. This analysis results in common congruent elements and problematics, which then open up to a wider humanities-based interpretive practice, in an analytical move similar to that of Cultural Studies. Using the epistemological framework of literary theory and the humanities, several problem areas that define an imaginary of transition are isolated: narration, identities, construction of space and time, problems of media and mediation. The analysis and interpretation that follows reveals a complex image of transition in fiction. An imaginary of transition is composed by assembling together congruent motives, themes and narrative elements, which are then organized in sets and interpreted from within a more general humanities framework. The subchapters deal with these sets of common elements. After the initial chapter about the concept of the imaginary, in the ensuing chapters the main focus is on narration. The chapter "Narratives of transition" introduces "primary research material", thirtysome fiction titles, mainly novels in which the narrative of the identity quest is recognized as the significant and formative one. Next chapter, "Narrators of transition" offers the primary typology of narrators and focalisation points. Using the criteria of relation to the complex transitional reality, we can classify typical narrators as follows: (1) the privileged narrator , close to modernist narrators, characterized by higher socio-cultural capital, (2) the loser of transition ( socially excluded narrator ) – the narrative position that is actualized in short narative forms (short stories and multiple or variable focalisation), (3) the active accomplice – mainly in the genre fiction and derivatives and (4) the travestied narrator – the one that deliberately and explicitly uses the "voice" of some specific position (dog, child, feral ② middle-aged woman). The additional type not derived by the same criteria is the narrator of (5) complex narrations . In the fourth chapter the concept of space and the production of space is analyzed. The term "urban", used as a dominantly positive label, even for the mimetic type of fiction, is further analyzed and problematized. The production of space in literary fiction shows that provincial spaces, countryside and small towns tend to be formed as Foucalt's heterotopic spaces . The interpretation of spatial and identity relations reveal that spaces in fiction are produced as mainly modernistic, identitary, historical, thus not postmodern or supermodern non-spaces ; they are articulated in fiction as postsocialist spaces . The object of analysis in the fifth chapter is time and the narrative construction of time. Here it was necessary to begin with the description of the narrative composition of each novel and then move to the interpretation. The interpretation shows that in analyzed narratives the time of transition reveals itself as the one of permanent liminality . The transition betrays its own teleology, and becomes a permanent state. Furthermore, the transition is the period of a traumatizing suspension of social norms, as in the ethnographic ritual concept of liminality ; the logic of inversion describes well the processes of transition. The complex notion of identity is analyzed and interpreted in the sixth chapter within several subchapters. National identities and the important heteroimage of Serbs in fiction, social and class identities, generational identities, identitary oppositions and oppositional identities are the topics of analysis in those subchapters. The interpretation reveals that the dominant identity position of focalizing and narrating the transition is the one of middle-class identity. Dominant middle-class narrators find themselves in the state of constant rearticulation of their position, in the narratives about personal identity quests, and thus can be recognizes as the identities of liquid modernity . Middle-class narrators tend to articulate themselves within the network of relations to the others of transition . The others can be representatives of the ideological voices of the nationalistic paradigm and even chauvinist attitudes while dominant middle-class narrators take the position of democratic non-aligned representation. The others can be both so called losers and winners of transition – socially excluded people as well as the class of Bauman's "successful consumers". The others are often representatives of non-urban values and this complex representation is revealed both as an important research topic as well as an epistemological