The search for identity : croatian narrations about identity in the last decade of the 20th century

The profound cultural changes that took place in Croatia in the 1990s intensified identity discourse on an individual and a collective level. The attempt to construct a new identity in a crisis situation, following the fall of the previous system, was significantly affected by war shock and a general state of cultural trauma typical for cross-border spaces where diverse cultures clash. The problem of narrative is strictly connected with that of identity. “Narrative” is understood as epistemological structure – a process which is the subject of changes in time. No society can be described without narration it creates.Devedesete su godine dvadesetoga stoljeća u Hrvatskoj razdoblje važnih i dubokih promjena u kojem se zemlja ponovno vraća na diskurz o identitetu na individualnoj i kolektivnoj razini. Pokušaj stvaranja novoga identiteta, istodobno s promjenom prijašnjega poretka, povezan je sa stanjem kulturne traume tipične za takozvana granična područja u kojima se susreću različite kulture