Slovenska Literatura (Jul 2016)
The Post-Modem Situation of Slovaklanguage Literature ofVojvodina and the Processes of Poetry Transformation since the l 960s.
Abstract
This paper analyzes the transformation of poetics from modernism to postmodernism in the poetry of Vojvodina Slovaks. The main methodological sources which we have used are the monograph Individualizovaná literatúra by Jaroslav Šrank and V poschodovom labyrinte byViliam Marčok, as well as the study by Dubravka Djurić. As a result of the analysis we have identified three sources of transformation from modern poetics to postmodernism in the poetry of the late sixties of the 20th century: intertextuality, neo avant-garde intermediality and the poetry of the Beat Generation. The only generalization which follows from the analysis is the variety of poetics during postmodernism. We have also identified two phases in the transformation from modernism to postmodernism in the poetry from Vojvodina. In the first phase the transformation consisted of spontaneous reactions of the authors to the contemporary literary influences. The second phase was a purposeful use of the postmodern manner, deconstruction as a source of the new semiotization. We consider the main conclusion of this paper to be the realization that the poetry of Vojvodina Slovaks has also been transformed by the influence of the poetry from Slovakia although some of the processes of postmodernism in Vojvodina predate those in Slovakia.
