Representations of slovenian identity and analysis of the national(istic) discourse in the slovenian magazine Kaplje

Abstract

The article deals with the position held by the Slovenian magazine Kaplje [Drops] in the Slovenian collective memory. Published in the town of Idrija between 1966 and 1972, i.e. in the period of party liberalism in former Yugoslavia, Kaplje was a publication from the periphery that ‘swam against the current’, although its role was almost entirely ignored. The article’s aim is therefore to determine how the magazine’s contributors represented and (re)produced Slovenian identity and its constitutive elements, and which forms and strategies of national(istic) discourse were used. The methodology is based on a critical discursive analysis of selected articles that touch on the above-mentioned themes from all 26 issues of the maga- zine, including a special issue released upon the twentieth anniversary of the date the magazine voluntarily came to an end.

Keywords

• slovenian identity
• nationalism
• discourse
• kaplje magazine
• idrija