Vol.3, No 1, 2004 pp. 73 - 85
UDC 316.7:821.163.41-31.09 Selenić S.

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A BLOODY DEFENDER OF CULTURE OR MULTICULTURALITY REVISITED IN SLOBODAN SELENIĆ'S
FRIENDS FROM KOSANČIĆEV VENAC 7
Dragana R. Mašović
Faculty of Philosophy, Niš, Serbia and Montenegro

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The most recent phenomenon of intensive and extensive cultural studies seems to have passed by Serbia leaving it undisturbed in its own cultural preconceptions, stereotypes and social prejudice. Yet, sooner or later, even the Serbian scientists would have to face the consequence of such a harmful delay in accepting cultural studies, especially at the academic level. This paper is an attempt to start talking about the topics that are now on the agenda of the cultural studies at every serious academia including the issue of national identity, gender and sexuality, history and social fiction, etc. In the presented analysis of Slobodan Selenić's novel, the focus is on the failure to establish proper bicultural contacts within the post-second World War Yugoslav (Serbian) framework between the members of two historically quite antagonistic ethnicities, Serbian and Kosovo Albanian. In the complex mélange of the presumed "reality", history, myth and fantasy, their relationship, instead of leading towards a creative and fruitful merging, leads to pathology, sickness and ultimate (self)destruction.

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KRVAVI OSVETNIK KULTURE ILI POKUŠAJ INTERKULTURALIZMA U ROMANU
PRIJATELJI SA KOSANČIĆEVOG VENCA 7
SLOBODANA SELENIĆA Najnoviji fenomen sveobuhvatnih i intenzivnih studija kulture kao da je mimoišao Srbiju, ostavljajući je neuznemirenu u njenim kulturnim predubeđenjima, sterotipijama i socijalnim predrasudama. Ipak, pre ili kasnije, čak i srpski naučnici moraće da se suoče sa posledicama tako štetnog oklevanja u prihvatanju studija kulture, posebno na akademskom nivou. Ovaj rad je pokušaj da se progovori o temama koje su na dnevnom redu studija kulture svake ozbiljnije akademske institucije uključujući koncepte nacionalnog identiteta, roda i seksualnosti, istorije i socijalne fikcije, itd. U datoj analizi Selenićevog romana, fokus je na neuspehu uspostavljanja primerenih bikulturalnih kontakta unutar okvira posleratnog jugoslovenskog (srpskog) društva i to medu pripadnicima dva istorijski prilicno antagonisticka naroda, srpskog i (Kosovsko )albanskog. U složenoj mešavini pretpostavljene stvarnosti, istorije, mita i fantazije, njihov odnos, umesto da vodi ka kreativnom i plodnom spoju, vodi u patologiju, bolest i (samo)uništenje.