In the period between the Spring of Nations and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Carniolan sausage did not only fi ll stomachs. It was also a highly esteemed refreshment, a stimulant for what was initially nascent and later – in the fi nal decades of the period under consideration – already completely awakened national identity. Carniolan sausage had a special place in the Slovenian society and culture. However, what about its place in the political life? It especially had a great symbolic potential for characterisation and it was a strongly marked object, allowing for various uses. It was convenient, frequently available for various occasions and needs, among others also for a range of »political« applications. Th e following text limits itself to three Carniolan sausage stains in the Slovenian politics in the period under consideration, smearing the press: the wagging fi ngers of the Slovenski narod newspaper journalists at the »flexible« – the politicians of moderate national policy in the Taaff e period; the disputes within the socialist camp among Slovenians in the United States; and fi nally one of the biggest social-political scandals in Carniola before World War I, brought to the boiling point in the atmosphere of the ruthless liberal-clericalist struggle for authority during the so-called Theimer affair.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36471853
The article is based on the thesis that the Krainer sausage (kranjska klobasa) had an important role in the formation and development of Slovenian national awareness in the period between the spring of nations and the end of World War I (and later). It primarily focuses on the role of the Krainer sausage in strengthening national pride, more specifically, on the ways in which Slovenian newspapers – undoubtedly an important factor in the reproduction of Slovenian national identity – substantiated national pride by writing about the Krainer sausage. The article presents the following three sets of newspaper articles that in different ways touch upon the relationship between national pride and the Krainer sausage: texts that praise the glory, fame and distinction of Krainer sausages; newspaper articles about various boycotts of Krainer sausages; and a few sporadic texts that present the position of the Krainer sausage in various international disputes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35935533
In the Slovene popular culture, the media, the spoken language, etc. the term burek is probably the most convenienet and useful label applied to immigrants from former Yugoslav republics, to the Balkans, an drelated phenomena. This article answers to the questions of why, and how, this semantic superinflation happened precisely to burek. As well it also problematize the meanings of Carniolan sausage, that most often stands oposite to the meanings of burek.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36474925