Mit(omanija) o srpstvu kao (unutrašnjem) egzilu u poeziji i lirskim zapisima Milosava Tešića

Abstract

The focus of this research will primarily be directed towards a poststructuralist perspective while analyzing Tešić’s poetics and lyric writings. Namely, the ideas of reconstructing national identity, of returning to one’s hometown and becoming whole-again in this pastoral setting, are scattered explicitly, almost chorally, throughout Tešić’s poetic opus and represent an impulse for discovering places which testify about a(n) (im) possibile restoration of initial totality. This dichotomy – city-countryside, good-bad – marks a starting point for reexamining whether binaries can survive in the context of polymorph, posthumanist literary environment. Tešić built a cosmogonic representation of his hometown as a panopticon, Serbianism as exile, which, as we will show in the paper, also functions as a border which does not allow one’s perspective to stray towards a non-logocentric thought system. Such Tešićian poetic space is filled with flora, from which we can further extricate elements often associated with Serbian branding (plums, for instance). In this paper, we will address the question of whether such instances form a peculiar type of hometown-as-exile, removed from urban tissue, which circumvents being here-and-now, as well as whether this exile forms a myth of the second Adam’s choice, which would further signify the return to the pre-Fall state of being.