Jože Žohar, a Slovene migrant poet from Australia
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, betwe...
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ftuniljubljanaff:oai:ojs.revije.ff.uni-lj.si:article/6244 2023-05-15T15:33:49+02:00 Jože Žohar, a Slovene migrant poet from Australia Jože Žohar, slovenski izseljenski pesnik iz Avstralije Maver, Igor 2005-12-01 application/pdf https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/6244 https://doi.org/10.4312/an.38.1-2.113-117 eng eng Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakulte / Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/6244/5974 https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/6244 doi:10.4312/an.38.1-2.113-117 Copyright (c) 2016 Igor Maver http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC-BY-SA Acta Neophilologica; Vol. 38 No. 1-2 (2005); 113-117 Acta Neophilologica; Letn. 38 Št. 1-2 (2005); 113-117 2350-417X 0567-784X 10.4312/an.38.1-2 Slovene literature / Slovene migrant literature / Literary studies / Austarlia slovenska književnost / literarne študije / slovenska izseljenska književnost / Avstralija info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2005 ftuniljubljanaff https://doi.org/10.4312/an.38.1-2.113-117 https://doi.org/10.4312/an.38.1-2 2021-08-08T10:20:58Z 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. Jože Žohar je emigriral v Avstralijo leta 1968 in je doslej v Sloveniji objavil tri samostojne pesniške zbirke, Aurora australis (1990), Veku bukev (1995) in Obiranje limon (2004). Članek opredeljuje pesnikovo značilno jezikovno eksperimentiranje, tematiko njegovih pesmi in ugotavlja, da je v vseh treh zbirkah najti močno prisotno specifično geografsko okolje, tako Prekmurja kot tudi avstralske pokrajine. Posebej v zadnji zbirki, ki je podrobneje obravnavana, se že kaže avtorjeva razpetost na dvoje »domov«, a ta obenem tudi ostaja brez prave pripetosti na katerega od njiju, kar je nasploh značilno za sodobno diasporično književnost. Article in Journal/Newspaper aurora australis Journals of Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana Eros ENVELOPE(156.457,156.457,62.260,62.260) Acta Neophilologica 38 1-2 113 117 |
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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. Jože Žohar je emigriral v Avstralijo leta 1968 in je doslej v Sloveniji objavil tri samostojne pesniške zbirke, Aurora australis (1990), Veku bukev (1995) in Obiranje limon (2004). Članek opredeljuje pesnikovo značilno jezikovno eksperimentiranje, tematiko njegovih pesmi in ugotavlja, da je v vseh treh zbirkah najti močno prisotno specifično geografsko okolje, tako Prekmurja kot tudi avstralske pokrajine. Posebej v zadnji zbirki, ki je podrobneje obravnavana, se že kaže avtorjeva razpetost na dvoje »domov«, a ta obenem tudi ostaja brez prave pripetosti na katerega od njiju, kar je nasploh značilno za sodobno diasporično književnost. |
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