Predziđe i most: Simbolička konceptualizacija graničnoga položaja Hrvatske u izvornome jugoslavizmu

STEHLÍK, Petr. Predziđe i most: Simbolička konceptualizacija graničnoga položaja Hrvatske u izvornome jugoslavizmu (Both Bulwark and Bridge: The Symbolic Conceptualization of the Frontier Position of Croatia in the Original Yugoslavism). In Symbole władzy - władza symboli. Kraków: Wydawnictwo «scriptum», 2014, p. 229-240. ISBN 978-83-64028-62-5.

Basic information

• Original name: Predziđe i most: Simbolička konceptualizacija graničnoga položaja Hrvatske u izvornome jugoslavizmu
• Name (in English): Both Bulwark and Bridge: The Symbolic Conceptualization of the Frontier Position of Croatia in the Original Yugoslavism
• Authors: STEHLÍK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Kraków, Symbole władzy - władza symboli, p. 229-240, 12 pp. 2014.
• Publisher: Wydawnictwo «scriptum»

Other information

• Original language: Croatian
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 60101 History
• Country of publisher: Poland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/14:00078295
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-83-64028-62-5
• Keywords in English: Croatia; Eastern Question; antemurale christianitatis; Yugoslavism; Strossmayer; Rački; frontier Orientalism
• Tags: RIV - zkontrolováno, rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Rad istražuje simboličku konceptualizaciju graničnoga položaja Hrvatske u izvornom obliku hrvatske nacionalno-integracijske ideologije jugoslavizma koju su početkom 60. godina 19. stoljeća formulirali Josip Juraj Strossmayer i Franjo Rački. Hrvatska je stoljećima bila područje na granici dvaju svjetova – zapadnokršćanske Europe i islamskog Orijenta, odnosno Habsburške Monarhije i Osmanskoga Carstva. Taj je položaj od 16. stoljeća dobio svoju simboličku dimenziju u obliku ideologema o Hrvatskoj kao predziđu kršćanstva koji je igrao značajnu ulogu u samopercepciji Hrvata. Međutim u drugoj polovici 19. stoljeća taj ideologem doživljava svoju preobrazbu u koncepciju Hrvatske kao mosta između Zapada i Istoka. Tu su promjenu inicirali upravo gore spomenuti glavni ideolozi izvornoga jugoslavizma u svojim člancima i javnim govorima nakon austro-ugarske okupacije Bosne i Hercegovine (1878). Na osnovi analize njihovih tekstova autor nastoji pratiti, opisati i obrazložiti transformaciju simboličke konceptualizacije graničnoga položaja Hrvatske. Posebnu pozornost pritom posvećuje dvama aspektima istraživane problematike: 1) poimanju uloge Hrvata u povijesti i rješavanju Istočnoga pitanja te posredovanju i širenju zapadne kulture na Balkan, 2) specifičnostima hrvatskoga orijentalističkog diskursa implicitno prisutnoga u takvim shvaćanjima povijesne i kulturne misije vlastite nacije.

Abstract (in English)

The paper examines the symbolic conceptualization of the frontier position of Croatia in the original form of the Croatian national-integrational ideology of Yugoslavism formulated at the beginning of the 1860s by Josip Juraj Strossmayer i Franjo Rački. For centuries, Croatia had been a territory at the border of two worlds: Western Christian Europe and the Islamic Orient, i.e. the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire. This position attained its symbolic dimension in the form of an ideologeme about Croatia as the bulwark of Christianity, which played an important role in the self-perception of Croats. However, in the second half of the 19th century this ideologeme transformed into a conception of Croatia as a bridge between West and East. This change was initiated by the aforementioned ideologues of the original Yugoslavism in their articles and public speeches after the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Hercegovina (1878). On the basis of analysis of their texts, the author strives to follow, describe and explain the transformation of the symbolic conceptualization of the frontier position of Croatia. He pays particular attention to two aspects of the researched subject: 1) the conceptualization of the role of Croats in the history and the process of solving the Eastern Question as well as in mediating and spreading Western culture in the Balkans, 2) the specifics of the Croatian Orientalist discourse which is imlicitly present in such interpretations of the historical and cultural mission of one's own nation.