Main Theme: "The House / the Threshold"
A Thematic Selection of Contemporary Macedonian Poetry
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Guidelines:
- To have a house means to have an address and the address is a reference for one's existence. Therefore: "To be is to have an address."
- The house (the home) as an existential necessity and as a symbolic hunger for identity.
- The archaeology of the house (cellar, floors, rooms, attic, roof.) reflects the physiology of a person (e.g. the cellar and the attic can be understood as his/her subconscious, etc.).
- The depersonalization of the home leads to an irreversible extinction of the house and its authentic narrative.
- The homelessness of a person leads to "homelessness" of peoples, nations, countries, ideological systems, values, etc.
- Homelessness as a negation of home and as a statement of free will to choose: "The whole world is my home."
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The home and the childhood often run parallel in our consciousness. They form a chronotope which idyllically designates a lost paradise and thus offers an abundant creative potential.
- The threshold contains in itself the poetics of the border. It is a symbolical obstacle for going in, but also for going out.
- The threshold as a provider of "homeliness", but also as an imposed limitation of freedom of movement: the notion of "home arrest".
- The Diaspora as a surrogate of home.
- Nomadism, displacement and globalization.
- The home as an opera aperta : an unfinished, unreachable, and priceless lifelong project.
Participants are very much welcome to broaden this arbitrary list of guidelines with their own notions and aspects regarding the topic.
Meena Alexander (India)
Sibila Petlevski (Croatia)
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