Vol.5, No 1, 2007pp. 71 - 77
UDC 821.111(71).09-1

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REWRITING PLACE, WRITING HOME:
ROBERT KROETSCH'S SEED CATALOGUE
Tanja Cvetković
University of Niš, Serbia

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The paper focuses on the way Robert Kroetsch recreates his home place Alberta and Canada in his essays and poetry, especially in his poem Seed Catalogue. He stresses the need to unname the place, to free it of the inherited layers of meanings, and rewrite it again by generating and inscribing new Canadian meanings to it. Through the speaker's "memory of colonialism", the poem presents the history of European colonization of the prairies as problematizing its status as "home ground". Kroetsch's idea of "the dream of origins" and his desire to locate an origin in a place and construct a home through language derive from a profound sense of dislocation.

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PONOVNO ISPISIVANJE MESTA, STVARANJE DOMA:
SEED CATALOGUE ROBERTA KROUČA Rad se bavi načinom na koji Robert Krouč iznova stvara svoje rodno mesto Albertu i Kanadu u svojim esejima i poeziji, posebno u svojoj pesmi Seed Catalogue. On insistira na potrebi da se razimenuje mesto, da se oslobodi nasleđenih slojeva značenja, i da se ono ponovo ispiše reflektovanjem i upisivanjem novih značenja koja će biti kanadska. Kroz pesnikovo "sećanje na kolonijalizam", pesma predstavlja istoriju evropske kolonizacije prerije i problematizuje njen status "domovine". Kroučova ideja "sna o poreklu" i njegova želja da locira poreklo mesta i da stvori dom kroz jezik potiču od njegovog dubokog osećaja dislokacije.