Jože Žohar, a Slovene migrant poet from Australia

Abstract

Jože Žohar migrated »dawn under« to Australia in 1968 and struggles to pacify inside him the two homelands, Slovenia and Australia. In his three published collections of verse in the Slovene language (1990, 1995, 2004) the poet remains torn between the two countries, between Eros and Thanatos, between a unique erotic experiencing of the homeland and the wish for physical and spiritual ending and closeness of death, which brings deliverance. The article tries to contextualize his recently published book ofverse Obiranje limon (2004) within recent theories of diasporic writing.

Keywords

• Slovene literature / Slovene migrant literature / Literary studies / Austarlia