CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Duancic, Vedran |
|---|---|
| Title | Creating Yugoslav Culture: Croatian and Serbian Attitudes toward a Common Culture, 1918-1929 |
| Summary | The thesis analyzes the attitudes of the Croatian and Serbian cultural and intellectual elites toward Yugoslav culture in the formative period of the first Yugoslavia – the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes – between the establishment of the South Slavic state in December 1918 and the proclamation of the royal dictatorship in January 1929, and their participation in the process of construction of a possibly qualitatively new cultural space. Through the discursive analysis of writings and speeches of two complementary cultural associations – Matica hrvatska and Matica srpska – besides the manifestations of support or resistance to the new cultural identifications and categories, the self-constitutive mechanisms are investigated. Cultural debate of the 1920s is presented in relation to the political situation in the state and the nation-building attempts. Ideological strategies revolving around the tropes of “crisis,” and employment of the metaphors concerning national(-ist) myths for establishing the internal, “intra-Yugoslav” power-relations, and positioning Yugoslavia in relation to Europe, are discussed as vital characteristics of the cultural space of the first Yugoslavia, whit far-reaching consequences. |
| Supervisor | Daskalov, Roumen Dontchev |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/duancic_vedran.pdf |
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