{"title":"Poetry of Revolt: Unmasking Revolution and Patriotism","authors":"Blerina Rogova Gaxha","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to thematize poetry as a form of protest, revolt, and rebellion. Our analysis seeks the poetry of authors who have a different cultural backgrounds, but who are approached by language and the common literary scene. Ervin Hatibi and Arben Idrizi are distinguished poets, who have bought into Albanian literature unique revolting poetry. Hatibi and Idrizi consider the poetic revolt as an essential literary act of reaction to pressure and oppression. Rebel poets both, however, neither conceive revolt as political resistance, on the contrary, revolt in their poetics arises as intra-literary rebellion which requires the revolting power of human beings, as a condition of renewal and non-alienation in a society in transition. Their point of view provides us with a geo-poetic and cultural background of the literature and culture of revolt in the works of literature of Southeast Europe. The theoretical introduction will be followed by the analysis of the authors’ poems and, in the end, we will generalize about the role that the poetic rebellion plays against the dominant political and cultural forces.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123286761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthropological Dimensions of War in the Works of Natalia Kobrynska","authors":"A. Shvets, M. Drohomyretska","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.12","url":null,"abstract":"In the article, Nataliia Kobrynska’s anti-military prose is analyzed in the context of an anthropological approach, which makes it possible to shed light on the “human and war” issue in a wide anthropological range. In particular, aspects of collective and individual emotions of war, gender issues, Christian anthropology, trauma of loss, motive of escape, national memory and archetypes, psychology of murder, children's perception of war are considered. This involves the biographical context of the writer herself, who witnessed and fell victim to the war, personally experiencing all its horrors and describing them in her works.The artistic description of war is dominated by N. Kobrynska’s expressionist worldview, depictions of the phenomena of mental and physical pain, borderline states of existence, ontologization of death, cordocentrism, motives of the end of the world, phantasmagoric visions of mutilation, deconstruction of the human body. The writer demonstrates the war-induced transformations in both public and individual consciousness that the new frontline experience has brought to an individual. It is particularly evident in the psychology of her characters, as the author notes the deformation of human values, when, on the one hand, a person adapts to war, experiences emotional atrophy, becomes inert to murder, and on the other hand, the same person gains new experience – the struggle for new vital meanings, mercy towards one's neighbor, exalted prayerfulness, ritual veneration of heroes, waiting for relatives to return from war. The anthropological dimensions of the phenomenon of war are dominated by the humanistic guidelines of the writer.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130300153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About the History of the Chiprovtsi Genus Soimirovich in Dubrovnik and Italy","authors":"Y. Dimitrov","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.8","url":null,"abstract":"The present article provides some information about the history of the influential Soimirovich family in Dubrovnik and Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries. This family originates from the Catholic town of Chiprovtsi in North-western Bulgaria and it was known until now with Franciscus Soimirovich (1614 – 1673), who held important positions in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the Balkans. The article is dealing with the relocation of some of them to Dubrovnik and subsequently to different parts of Italy and with their marriages with various local families. They have integrated successfully into the societies of their new homelands as respected and wealthy merchants. However, they didn't cut their ties with Bulgaria which can be seen from the testament of one of the representatives of the family, called Demetrio Serratura from Dubrovnik, translated at the end of the article.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127730397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scenography and Dramaturgy of Violence. The Communist Regime and the Denial of the Assimilation of Muslims in Bulgaria","authors":"N. Muratova","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.3","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the process of forced assimilation of Pomacs and Turks in the 1970s-80s and the denial of the violence by the communist regime in Bulgaria. Three cases have been presented in which the regime uses the same prepared individuals and prepared situations aimed at deceiving the global public about the violent Bulgarisation and persecution of the religious beliefs of Muslims. The preparation for the reception of external guests is carried out according to the rules of theatrical production, with its dramaturgy and stage design. The execution in all three cases was accompanied by confusing situations and failures, ultimately failing to deceive the participants. The three cases were provoked by publications in the world press about these events. The first was a visit by Moammar Gaddafi with a delegation to Bulgaria in 1978, the second was a visit by the The Arab Conference Contact Group in 1987 and the third was the making of a film about Muslims in Bulgaria by the German communist journalist of Turkish origin Kamil Taylan in 1986.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124507113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sex and Gender. Between Humanities, Social Sciences, and Legal Studies","authors":"D. Parusheva","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.19","url":null,"abstract":"Review of the volume \"Gender: between Humanities, Social Sciences, and Legal Studies\", edited by Desislav Georgiev and Denitsa Nencheva. The topic is presented through the figure of the in-between, which allows for a dialogue: authors from different research fields and paradigms present their readings of a variety of issues related to the sometimes considered untranslatable gender.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121102600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building a Part of Nation Abroad (How Civitas Dei Voyvodovo become a Czech Village in Bulgaria)","authors":"M. Jakoubek","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.7","url":null,"abstract":"Voyvodovo, a village in Northwest Bulgaria, is standardly described as a Czech village in Bulgaria, inhabited by the Czech compatriots. The article tries to prove this conceptualization historically inadequate and offers a different line of interpretation. It shows that members of this community, who had left Czech lands before the Czech national revival movement, did not share Czech national identity because this was established only after their departure. Instead of being a Czech village, Voyvodovo community was nationally indifferent. The main element of collective identity of its members was religion, which represented the central organizing principle of the community. Czechs become Voyvodovans only much later, due to the outside influence of the socalled “fellow-countryman care” executed upon them by the Czechoslovak Republic in the interwar period.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134167672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literary History as a Minefield: “Explosive Literature”","authors":"Milka Angelova","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.18","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a review of the study entitled \"Explosive Literature: Military Predictions, Partisan Narratives, Party Memoirs\", authored by Maya Angelova.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131794694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The End of the Century. Political Memories of one Non-Politician","authors":"Ventsislav Bozhinov","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.17","url":null,"abstract":"Evgenia Ivanova's book „The End of the Century. Political Memories of a Non-Politician“ is an autobiographical story. It not only covers the political events in Bulgaria from the 1990s, but the narrative also goes back to fundamental personae from the 19th century onwards. The book combines various genres: from classical autobiography and journalism, characterised by different nuances of historical and fictional narrative, to memoir. This is a freer view, not succumbing to the otherwise difficult-to-discern framework of the genre, which may also show the features of the romanticised autobiography. Simultaneously, the seasoned ethnological view may distinguish the peculiarities of the autobiographical tale as a methodological apparatus, as well as the realised autoreflexiveness and the growing reverse reflexiveness of the ethnologist Evgenia Ivanova towards a vast period of processes and the events it holds. Not least, the book poses the question: „Why does the author decide to tell her story up until the year 2000?“. The answer is in the book.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127577848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The issue of the deportation of Meskhetian Turks from the Georgian SSR to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in 1944","authors":"Gunel Taghizade","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.15","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the investigation of deportation of Meskhetian (Ahiska) Turks, a small non-titular group who has experienced multiple displacements, violent persecution, and ongoing exile since 1944. As a result of these studies, based on historical facts, the author reveals the reasons for the expulsion of Meskhetian Turks from Georgia to Central Asia in 1944, their lives as deportees and émigrés in third countries and their later rehabilitation and resettlement. The actual data as well as the versions proposed by the Soviet leadership have been studied. This study focuses on an analysis of the historiographical debates about the community of the Meskhetian Turks.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128162614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Debelyanov's Diary\" by Roman Hadzhikosev - Between the Document and the Novel, or about Genre Challenges","authors":"Elena Azmanova-Rudarska, E. Tacheva","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i3.16","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a review of the study entitled \"Dnevnikat na Debelyanov. Siniyat belezhnik\", authored by Roman Hadzhikosev, p. 223.","PeriodicalId":345221,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOURCES OF MOBILISATION","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133737407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}