Towards a Typology of South Slavonic Literary Exile

Abstract

In the broad chronological and geographical dimension of South Slavic literatures, the study of literary exile raises a number of preliminary issues related to the concept of Slavia Orthodoxa and the dispersal of the Tãrnovo Literary School’s members in 1393, the reformed Slovenian and Croatian literature in the second half of the sixteenth century, the activities outside the borders of the (future) Exarchate of the Bulgarian Renaissance writers (esp. 1820- 1870), revolutionary motivated or in education, and the most fruitful period, the twentieth century, with waves of economic migration, mostly to the Americas, the exile provoked by the Second World War, during it or after it, which is European and American, the crisis of the ’60s, the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) or the Yugoslav wars and their literary and also language consequences.