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Illyrozentrismus: ein verborgenes Konzept

Konzepte des Slawischen. Hrsg. Tomáš Glanc und Christian Voß. Leipzig: Biblion Media. 2016. 251–264.

Abstract

The multilingualism of the literary production in the Croatian lands reached its peak in the 1830s and 1840s. Paradoxically, that period is represented mostly as monolithic in the Croatian literary historiography and in cultural/identity politics, and is channelled through various means, such as, for example, high school curricula, the naming of public spaces, raising/demolition of monuments, etc. In other words, the linguistic, poetical and even ideological variety in the literary praxis of the 1830s and 1840s is reduced to the literature of the Illyrian movement. This phenomenon is called illyrocentrism. The author emphasizes the importance of other literary praxis in the Croatian lands in the observed period (kajkavian and German in North Croatia, Italian and Slavonic-Serbian in Dalmatia) and critically examines possible arguments for illyrocentric tendencies as well as their ideological implications.