Hetero stereotypes in Stevan Sremac's short stories: Study in Serbian imagology

Abstract

In this paper we analyse the presentation of "others" in Stevan Sremac's short stories. Starting from the understanding of identity and stereotypes in imagology we focus on hetero stereotypes and the portraits of others in two Sremac's short stores - Kir Geras and Kir Moša Abenšaam, or the History about the way in which Kir Moša lost one o f his benefits. Use of humour enables Sremac to portrait the "foreigners" not as "monstrous others" of European cultural tradition, but as close neighbours with whom the readers easily sympathize.

U radu se analiziraju predstave o drugima u pripovetkama Stevana Sremca. Krećući se od razumevanja identiteta i sterotipa u imagološkim proučavanjima književnosti, rad se fokusira na heterosterotipe i ideju "stranca" u pripovetkama Kir Geras i Ćir Moša Abenšaam, ili Istorija o tome: kako je Ćir Moša izgubio jednu svoju povlasticu. Upotreba humora u obe pripovetke, iako uvek etničkog humora kojim se heterostereotipi afirmišu, omogućava prepoznavanja sebe u drugome, koji se stoga ne doživljava kao "monstruozni sused" iz evropske kulturne tradicije, već kao sused, koji iako i dalje drugi, ne ostaje stranac.