Slika drugog u romanu "Tai" Gorana Gocića

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with the concepts of the Other in Goran Gocić’s novel Tai. This con-cept covers observations regarding the Orient as the Other in relation to Europe, and matriarchy and the matrifocal social order versus patriarchy and the patriarchal order, the anima as the Other within the man in relation to the woman and the man who does not comprehend his anime. This discourse on Otherness also includes observations regarding imagology and the ideas it consti-tutes, which are present in the novel as revelations for Western European understanding of the world and life. Through imagology, we will see how cultural patterns can predetermine the life of an individual in the West, determine the notions that an individual will have regarding a concept, which is the case with the image of the East and the Orient in the novel itself. The aim of this paper is to emphasize this otherness, to explain and expose it, to indicate a new perspective in under-standing and perceiving the East, but also to show that the novel confronts all the prejudices of the West and portrays the East beyond the stereotypes and dogmas of cultural patterns.