Borovnik S. Večkulturnost in medkulturnost v slovenski književnosti. Maribor: Univerzitetna založba univerze, 2017. 172 str. ISBN 13-978-961-286-093-6

Abstract

This review of the monograph “Multiculturality and Interculturality in Slovenian Literature” (Maribor, 2017), by Slovenian literary critic and Doctor of Philology Silvija Borovnik, discerns the content and problems of the book. We focus especially on the chapters that deal with intercultural interaction between Slovenia and the republics of the former Yugoslavia. We also consider in particular the analysis of the essays by Drago Jančar and Aleš Debeljak, as well as the bilingual works of Josip Osti and Goran Vojnović. Borovnik's work also examines the opus of Carinthian writers F. Lipuš, M. Haderlap, P. Handke, the Slovenian-French novelist B. Svit, the Slovenian-German writer M. Krese, the American-Slovenian writer E. Johnson Debeljak, and the Slovenian-Austrian novelist and poet Alma Karlin, amongst others, through the prism of multiculturality and interculturality.

Keywords

• multiculturality
• interculturality
• slovenian literature
• literary bilingualism
• silvija borovnik
• drago jančar
• aleš debeljak
• josip osti
• goran vojnović