SOCIAL CRISES AND CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE: NATIONAL, REGIONAL, EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL FRAMEWORK

Researching literary, cultural, anthropological and social aspect of various forms of social crises, caused by historical disturbances (conflicts generated by different concepts of historical development, culture collisions, transitional problems of different levels of identity, global economic problems, etc.), and their reception in Contemporary Serbian literature and culture. Exploring historical (diachronic) and contemporary (synchronic) causes and consequences of social crises, as well as literary and cultural responses to them. Analyzing national, European and global frameworks of social crises and interliterary and intercultural interrelatedness of national, regional, European and global poetics of literatures and cultures. Redefining the crisis concept as a manner of overcoming the ideological mechanisms of identity production, and comparative inquiry into literary and cultural policies in relations to local and global plane. Perceiving the changes in Contemporary Serbian literature and culture which are the consequence of social changes, the role of literature/culture as the critical conscience in relation to social crises, the position of literature and culture in crucial/crisis moments, literature and culture as the generator of meaning and a form of criticizing and overcoming social crises. Analyzing national, regional, European and global media and political “scenarios”, connected with forming and redefining their image in literature and culture.