Response
Camp Literature: Archetype for Dissent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22778249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oskar Gruenwald (University of Santa Monica, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 280-283 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2499120 |
| OpenAlex | W2318219179 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
I would like to thank the Slavic Review , and its fair-minded editor, Sidney Monas, for allowing me to break the silence on certain taboo themes and respond to critics—civilities practiced mostly in the breach in the societies we study. Due to space limitations, I shall respond fully to Robert Hayden, who raises many issues, apart from the problem of definition, and trust that in the process I may encompass also Matt Oja's thoughtful remarks. Hayden's critique of my article on Yugoslav camp literature is based on two premises, which he fails to prove: that camp literature is not well defined and hence includes a good deal of official writings, or, alternatively, that it lacks internal consistency; and that the very concept of camp literature “misrepresents the political and intellectual currents in the country.” Much of his commentary is an ad hominem argument. Curiously, much of it, even if inadvertently, substantiates my central thesis: Yugoslav prison and camp literature represents a catalyst in the current processes of liberalization, democratization, and humanization in both politics and culture in post-Tito Yugoslavia.
Aesthetics · Archetype · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Dissent · Epistemology · Impossibility · Law and economics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Silence · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |