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In search of a new Yugoslav myth (on the perception of cultural traditions in discussions led on the pages of Naše teme, Nin, Delo and Vidici in the early 1960s)
U traganju za novim jugoslovenskim mitom (o poimanju kulturnih tradicija u diskusijama vođenim na stranicama Naših tema, NIN-a, Dela i Vidika početkom šezdesetih godina)
Karović, Nemanja
The paper analyses debates and discussions led in the early 1960s in the magazines Delo, Naše teme, NIN and Vidici, in order to determine the ways in which, a decade and a half since the establishment of the new Yugoslavia, Belgrade and Zagreb’s respective cultural environment understood the notion of socialist culture and evaluated the purpose of national traditions. Special attention was paid to the issue of the Kosovo myth, whose original meaning was often subjected to political misuse in the past, just as it was rejected in the socialist present as ideologically inacceptable content, but also to the question of whether, for the purpose of strengthening interethnic cohesion, Yugoslavia needed a shared myth. The distinctive polemical fervour and occasional verbal intensity of the participants in the examined debates revealed that public discourse on the Kosovo myth in the early 1960s – even with all ideological disputes aside, which were more related to the unitary nature of the previous Yugoslav regime than to the conceptual interpretation of Prince Lazar – was a sensitive issue. This was because it inevitably, through a volatile chain reaction, triggered a series of cultural and political problems around which there was no consensus. The subject was clearly complex and ambiguous, causing a certain intellectual discomfort, stirring spiritual unrest and testing the firmness of the foundations upon which the contemporary vision of Yugoslav culture was built. Based on the cultural and political stances expressed, participants in the Vidici discussions could be divided into those, like Ljubomir Simović or Zoran Petrović, who acknowledged Šegedin’s arguments in favour of the idea of establishing deeper symbolic unity among the Yugoslav peoples, but instead of Bogomilism, proposed the Battle of Sutjeska or Zelengora as a central point around which a common myth could be woven; and those who dismissed the revival of old or the creation of new mythical traditions as an outdated way of understanding the world and an obsolete form of political action. The research has shown that younger generations of poets and critics, when faced with the choice between Ćosić’s dogmatic vision of Yugoslav culture and Mišić’s modern take on national tradition, were much more inclined to opt for the ideologically more conforming cultural and political strategy.
Sažetak: U radu su analizirane debate i polemike koje su početkom šezdesetih godina vođene u Delu, Našim temama, NIN-u i Vidicima, kako bi se utvrdilo na koje je načine u beogradskoj i zagrebačkoj kulturnoj sredini, deceniju i po nakon osnivanja nove Jugoslavije, shvatan pojam socijalističke kulture i valorizovan smisao nacionalnih tradicija. Posebna pažnja posvećena je problemu kosovskog mita, čiji je izvorni smisao u prošlosti bio često podvrgavan političkim zloupotrebama, te je u socijalistički ustrojenoj sadašnjici odbacivan kao ideološki neprihvatljiv sadržaj, ali i pitanju da li je Jugoslaviji, zarad uspostavljanja dubljeg međunacionalnog jedinstva, neophodan jedan zajednički mit. Istraživanjem je utvrđeno da su, birajući između ćosićevske dogmatično ustrojene vizije jugoslovenske kulture i mišićevskog modernog pogleda na nacionalnu tradiciju, mlađi naraštaji pesnika i kritičara bili mnogo skloniji da se opredele za ideološki podobniju kulturnopolitičku strategiju.
srpski
2024
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Key words: socialist culture, cultural policy, national tradition, internationalism, myth, Kosovo disposition, humanist activism
Ključne reči: socijalistička kultura, kulturna politika, nacionalna tradicija, internacionalizam, mit, kosovsko opredeljenje, humanistički aktivizam
10.17234/9789533792019.7