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FOOD CULTURE AS THE BASIS FOR SERBIAN, FRENCH AND ITALIAN PHRASEOLOGICAL EXPRESSIONS

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The subject of this research are Serbian, French and Italian idioms referring to culinary terminology (lexemes that denote groceries, certain types of meals and other culinary products such as lemon, bread, cheese etc.) The main objective of this article is to indicate the relationship between language and culture. Therefore, the motivation of chosen idioms is analysed in order to explore the influence of national culture on phraseological meaning. Idioms are classified into three groups: 1) idioms motivated by customs, experiences and habits of the nation, 2) idioms motivated by beliefs and stories and 3) idioms influenced by literary discourse. The analysis of our corpus shows that different experiences, habits and customs of the Serbian, French and Italian people in relation to food affect their phraseological expressions. On the other hand, despite the fact that each language brings elements of national culture, these nations can also have a similar metaphorical manner of thinking.

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GEOGRAPHY AND ART

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of geography in the works of Saša Brajović. Two parallel issues discussed in the paper are 1) whether in the group of texts dedicated to the cult of Virgin Mary in the Bay of Kotor by an art historian from Belgrade, notably in the monographies Our Lady of the Rocks (2000) and In Mary’s Garden (2006), there are elements which point to the presence of a geography of art (dissemination and trajectories of art forms in space, relation between art centres and art peripheries, directions of artists movements, description of artistic topography, availability and nature of materials necessary for art production) and 2) what is the logic of the geographical discourse in the aforementioned historiographical undertaking relating to the two main established theories so far (geographical determinism and geographical possibilism).

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TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING OF NATIONAL BELONGING, SERBIAN PHILOSOPHERS AND SERBIAN PHILOSOPHY

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This discussion involves different aspects of multidimensional phenomenon of national belonging and additionally relates to the definitions of “Serbian philosophers” and “Serbian philosophy”. A thesis is defended that, in order to understand and determine national co-belonging it is most appropriate to locate it in the cross section of basic ethnic identity of the genus on the one side and further constitutive cultural/historical identity on the other side, further to be explained through their fusion. Nation co-belonging actually has three dimensions: genetic/generic, personal/decisionistic and cultural/historical. In this regard, Serbian philosophy is then defined in its basic sense as primarily those concepts created and defended by authors – personal holders of Serbian national identity.

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FROST AND ASHES IN POST-YUGOSLAV TIMES

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Classification and determination of works that could be classified as post-Yugoslav literature would imply detailed systematization of a wide, thematically extensive and extremely interesting literary material of all nations that once belonged to the Yugoslav literary and cultural region. Although literature goes beyond physical boundaries and allows a connection with various peaks and cultural dimensions, our post-Yugoslav literature is close and beyond all the real and fictitious barriers in the works of universal value. The collapse of the Yugoslav society and the systems on which it rests in the novel Frost and Ash by Jasna Šamić is shown from different perspectives, which opens up multiple possibilities for interpretation and analysis. The demolition of one system of values and the establishment of another never involves only individuals, but always, inevitably, reflects on all stakeholders in a society. In such times, women hold a particularly sensitive position in patriarchal systems, being almost always marked as marginal, weaker and subject to subordination. Different strategies of subordination and control are realized through the system of dichotomic establishment of hierarchies which involves conquest of not only the body, but also the subjugation of the spirit and imposing the feelings of guilt. In a time marked by violence and various psychological and physical trauma, Jasna Šamić’s novel has remained unexplored, although the issues it opened up remain fresh and current.

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POST-YUGOSLAV LITERATURE, FEMALE AUTHORS IN FOCUS

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This paper discusses the post-Yugoslav literature, but it also deals with problems and positive examples on this literary scene. The problem of the double marginalization of female authors is in the centre of this paper, with a special focus on the novels Ravnoteža (Balance) by Svetlana Slapšak and Satovi u majčinoj sobi (Clocks in Mother’s Room) by Tanja Stupar Trifunović. The paper endeavours to point out that both of these novels are of significant importance to the post-Yugoslav literary scene but also that, theme, style, and form-wise, they belong to a market much larger than that of the former Yugoslav countries.

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BETWEEN FICTION AND TESTIMONY: KIŠ, ALBAHARI, DRNDIĆ

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The article deals with literary treatment of historical documents on mass extermination of Jews in the Second World War. It focuses on texts by Danilo Kiš, David Albahari and Daša Drndić. The idea of ‘post-Yugoslav literary field’ provides the context for interpretation, and different narrative strategies of implementation of historical documents in the works of fiction are connected with the theoretical question of authorship, posed by Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. The concept of the author as an instance that completes other peoples’ testimonies is transposed to the level of the literary character, in order to give an answer to the fundamental question of Giorgio Agamben: What does it mean to be the subject of desubjectivation, and how can a subject give an account on their own desintegration?

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IDEOLOGICAL TYPES OF INTERPRETATION AND ACTUALIZATION OF IVO ANDRIĆ’S LITERARY OPUS IN THE POST-YUGOSLAV CONTEXT

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This paper interprets the ideological models of the nationally marked reception of Andrić’s literary works since the last decade of the 20th century in the Bosnian and Serbian intellectual circles, and it explores the genesis of a negative attitude towards this writer and his opus. Also, it points out to the causes and the extent to which the examinations of Andrić’s literature have been displaced from the primary aesthetic framework.

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FOOD AS IDEA

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This article describes the main sociological and anthropological meanings of nutrition through history, from mythological and religious meanings, through the contrast between poverty and wealth, to the consumeristic, functionalistic, structuralistic and developmental theories (Bourdieu, Douglas, Durkheim, Elias, Fichler, Goody, Levi-Strauss, Mennel, Myerson, Simmel, Sobal, Veblen etc.). It is discussed how food, with all of its cultural customs and rules, has gained different interpretations in different social systems and epochs. All these interpretations share a common fact that food is not only primary human need, but also the ideatic, symbolic, cultural and philosophical concept which represents an integral part of the world views and the way of life specific to a certain community and/or period of time. Particularly interesting is the connection of consumption with the mythological and religious patterns, by which this basic dimension of life becomes a mediator between the profane and the holy world – because, from the archaic times, food has always been a means for achieving unity with the divine.

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HOW TO THINK WORK AND PRACTICE

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Contemporary approaches to the terms of labour and praxis have multiple layers. This paper begins from the Aristotelian relation to labour in Hannah Arendt’s work and her insistence on truly human action, separate from instrumental relations. Despite her thoughts on labour, which she reduced to the necessity to maintain life, it is the overall understanding of praxis as a space for diversion, possibility and freedom which is important in Arendt’s work. One of Arendt’s puzzling theses is her critique of Marx’s understanding of labour. Differentiation between labour and work, in the spirit of Marx, is exquisitely developed in Vanja Sutlić’s work. His texts show that the true work (as productio) is, in fact, revelation of a being hiding behind alienation. Hence, the fundamental moment of devising the world is the contemporary understanding of a man as a creative being.

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BEING A LGBTTIQ – MEANINGS THAT SHAPE US

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This paper analyses certain aspects of everyday life of the LGBT population in Serbia, starting with Gerc’s understanding of culture. Aspects that shape the “identity” of a non-heterosexual person in a predominantly heteronormative and heterosexual environment are a stigma, internalized homophobia, and various strategies of “passing” and connecting with the “gay” community. These elements are an integral part of the lives of LGBT people and based on them we can talk about certain meanings that are common to LGBT population. The first part deals with concepts such as identity, internalized stigma/homophobia, while the second part deals with several case studies of non-heterosexual persons. The experiences such as sexual orientation different from heterosexual and gender identities that are not binary make it possible to speak in Gerc’s sense of a certain “culture” that is familiar to LGBT minority, which is largely not shared by heterosexual women and men in the same society. That culture of the LGBTTIQ population forms part of a hidden and an invisible culture – being in opposition to the heteronormative concepts means exposure to discrimination and violence, which brings a lot of misunderstandings but also means resistance – a certain challenge to the society that is standardized by heterosexual rules and binary gender regimes. The LGBTTIQ “culture” has the power to deconstruct oppositions such as heterosexual/homosexual, men/women, etc.