JOŽE ŽOHAR, A MIGRANT POET FROM AUSTRALIA AND HIS NEW COLLECTION OF VERSE OBIRANJE LIMON (2004)

Authors

  • Igor Maver

Keywords:

Slovene emigrant literature, Slovene poetry, Australian Slovenes, diaspora

Abstract

Jože Žohar migrated »down 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 contextualizes his recently published book of verse Obiranje limon (2004) within recent theories of diasporic writing.

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Author Biography

Igor Maver

Red. prof. dr., Oddelek za anglistiko in amerikanistiko, Filozofska fakulteta, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana.

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Published

2006-01-01

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Maver, I. . (2006). JOŽE ŽOHAR, A MIGRANT POET FROM AUSTRALIA AND HIS NEW COLLECTION OF VERSE OBIRANJE LIMON (2004). Two Homelands, (23). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/11653

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No. 23 (2006)

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