The symbolism of space in the novel the chronicle of the provincial theatre by Pavao Pavličić

The paper analyses the shaping of space in the novel The Chronicle of the Provincial Theatre by Pavao Pavličić. Postmodern giving priority to marginal categories is manifested in the following ways: national and world history reflect the life of the provincial town of Varoš; a theatre was built on the edge of the town close to the Danube River; the caretaker’s family lives in the theatrical building, whereby the boundaries of public and private space are wiped off; instead of the cultural heterotopia, the theatre of Varoš became an institution with numerous inartistic functions; the family and historical chronicle contains the elements of a detective novel (a stolen angel from the theatrical dome was being sought for almost a century, as long as the main character’s search for his personal identity lasted). Geographic figures form the symbolic layer of the novel: the theatre as a cultural and social figure of the mainland, the Danube River as a link with the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe and the aerial image which redefines the landscape of Varoš. Given these characteristics, Pavličić’s novel belongs to the variant of the new historical novel in Croatian literature.

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Against the Barriers. The Unusual Story of the Usual Yusein Mashev

Scientific knowledge - autonomy, dependence, resistance - Balkanistic Forum ◽

10.37708/bf.swu.v30i3.1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 11-32

Author(s):

Zeynep Zafer

Keyword(s):

Danube River ◽

Concentration Camp ◽

Communist Regime ◽

The Danube River ◽

Public Events ◽

False Identity ◽

The Town

In the context of the repressions of the Pomaks the unusual story of the miner worker Yusein Mashev from village of Ribnovo, which started in 1979 and finished in 1980, give us an idea of the time of the communist regime in Bulgaria. He succeeded to escape form the concentration camp in Belene, crossing during the night the Danube river. He was able to reach the town of Kyustendil and to cross illegally the Bulgarian – Yugoslav border. In the emigration camp in Italy he decided to depart illegally for Turkey, boarded the ship to Istanbul without documents, without any roblems he reached his acquaintances and relatives in the town of Saray, Takirdag district. After five years he turned back to Bulgaria with false identity reached Ribnovo and smuggled his wife and two children into Yugoslavia. Yusein Mishev bravely resisted the change of the names of the Pomaks, the following repressions did not discourage him, he overcame all the barriers, caring a letter send to him in order to voice the protests in village of Kornitsa during March – April 1973. Makes important events available to the Bulgarian and world public, events which were hidden very carefully by the Bulgarian authorities. On the radio in Yugoslavia he told of the repression of innocent citizens and informed about the concentration camp in Belene, announcing the names of imprisoned in the II section Pomaks. The aim of this research, based on field researches in Bulgaria and Turkey and many interviews, is to preserve for the history and science the unusual story of Yusein Mahev – a man of freedom loving spirit and rich vision.

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OBLICZA MULTIKULTURALIZMU POGRANICZA (NATALKA BABINA, MIASTO RYB)

Acta Neophilologica ◽

10.31648/an.2697 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (XX) ◽

pp. 215-226

Author(s):

Aleksandra Zywert

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

The Novel ◽

Main Character ◽

Detective Novel ◽

Novel Of Manners ◽

The Town

The novel The Town of Fish (Рыбiн горад, 2007) by Natalia Babina is an extraordinary work within contemporary Belarusian literature due to both its content and formal characteristics. It is an eclectic text, which includes elements of the action and detective novel, fantasy, the novel of manners, and even the reportage. The story of the main character is a mere pretext for contemplating some aspects and condition of modern Belarus as well as identity issues of its inhabitants (especially from the borderland).In this context, Babina’s novel, despite its fantastic and entertaining layers, is a significant voice in the discussion concerning the dimensions of modern multiculturalism devoid of “divisions into majorities and minorities, the familiar and the other, the better and the worse”.

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SISTEM SOSIAL ALA NIKLASH LUHMAN DALAM NOVEL SEPERTIGA MALAM DI MANHATTAN KARYA ARUMI E

SASTRANESIA Jurnal Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia ◽

10.32682/sastranesia.v7i2.1292 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 49

Author(s):

Anton Wahyudi

Keyword(s):

Social System ◽

System Approach ◽

Research Method ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

The Novel ◽

Original Culture ◽

The Family ◽

Data Source ◽

Social System Approach ◽

Fictional Story

The novel Sepertiga Malam di Manhattan by Arumi E is very interesting to study. This novel is a novel about the struggle of a family to get happiness. This novel is the Arumi E's 27th newest novel. The struggle in this novel is to make the family happy, expecting for the baby. Before writing the novel, Arumi E did a research in the places written in the novel to achieve a very interesting fictional story and most of this story was taken from the traveling results so it was so interesting. The objective of this research is to describe (1) the Autopoetic System in the novel Sepertiga MalamdiManhattan by Arumi E. (2) The differentiation system in the Novel Sepertiga Malamdi Manhattan by Arumi E.The research method used is in the form of a descriptive qualitative method that uses a social system approach. The method used by the researcher is the dialectical method. The data source used in this research is the novel Sepertiga Malamdi Manhattan by Arumi E, published by Gramedia publisher in 2018. The data collection in this study uses the steps of reading the novel. To collect data, the researcher use any instrument.There are two results of the study: (1) The autopoetic system in the novel Sepertiga MalamdiManhattan by Arumi E. is concerning to some characters who have their own beliefs or rules in their lives who do not want to follow the rules of others, they are more confident in their own way to success and purpose of life. (2) The system of differentiation in the novel Sepertiga Malamdi Manhattan by Arumi E. is covering the handling of changes in the environment, the characters are able to adapt to the new environment, which has a different culture from the original culture. This shows evidence of the system autopoetic and differentiation in the novel Sepertiga MalamdiManhattan by Arumi E.

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Buried Narratives: Exhuming the Mother's Story in Oliver Twist

Victoriographies ◽

10.3366/vic.2018.0317 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 247-266

Author(s):

Michelle L. Wilson

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Maternal Inheritance ◽

The Novel ◽

Poor Law ◽

The Family ◽

The Law ◽

First Time ◽

Critical Consideration

Initially, Oliver Twist (1839) might seem representative of the archetypal male social plot, following an orphan and finding him a place by discovering the father and settling the boy within his inheritance. But Agnes Fleming haunts this narrative, undoing its neat, linear transmission. This reconsideration of maternal inheritance and plot in the novel occurs against the backdrop of legal and social change. I extend the critical consideration of the novel's relationship to the New Poor Law by thinking about its reflection on the bastardy clauses. And here, of course, is where the mother enters. Under the bastardy clauses, the responsibility for economic maintenance of bastard children was, for the first time, legally assigned to the mother, relieving the father of any and all obligation. Oliver Twist manages to critique the bastardy clauses for their release of the father, while simultaneously embracing the placement of the mother at the head of the family line. Both Oliver and the novel thus suggest that it is the mother's story that matters, her name through which we find our own. And by containing both plots – that of the father and the mother – Oliver Twist reveals the violence implicit in traditional modes of inheritance in the novel and under the law.

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