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- 2019
Home, Krolimp and the Accompanying Apocalyptic LiteratureKeywords: Apocalyptic imagination, ?najder – Mato?, Brezovec – Cvetni?, Pakovi? – Krle?a, parody, canon, homeland Abstract: Sa?etak ?Sons of the country? and ?fathers of literature? in literary and theatrical adaptations of Slobodan ?najder, Branko Brezovac and Zlatko Pakovi? have been put on stage against the homogenic ideology of canonic authors or the ?homeland champions? of Croatian literature. ?najder has staged Mato?, Brezovac has chosen Cvetni? and Pakovi? has put on stage Krle?a. All three contemporary authors (?najder, Brezovac and Pakovi?) with their theatrical means and parody techniques have stood as witnesses to the homeland as a special type of apocalyptic location and its accompanying literature, where the ?older writers? cannon sleep peacefully, but rather continue to ?grumble? about a systematic injustice, from their own perspective of ?zombies? (neither dead nor alive protagonists)
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