Abstract

This article aims to show how South Slavic oral lyric songs in love and wedding contexts construct the images of an ‘undesired Other’. The multiform Other may be a temporary Other within the in-group, while going through the liminal phase of the wedding rite of passage; or an outsider-Other by virtue of ethnicity, religion, or social status. The undesired Other is both known and unknown, dangerous and in danger, inferior and superior. He or she may be modelled as the ethnic and social Other, and ultimately as inhuman. The undesired Other functions primarily as a mean to articulate the fears, anxieties, hopes, and longings of young people of marriageable age.

摘要

本文旨在展示爱情和婚礼背景下的南斯拉夫口头抒情歌曲如何构建“不受欢迎的他者”的形象。多重形式的他者可能是群体内的临时他者，同时经历结婚仪式的临界阶段；或局外人——因种族、宗教或社会地位而异。不受欢迎的他者既是已知的又是未知的，危险的和处于危险中的，低劣的和优越的。他或她可能被塑造成种族和社会的他者，最终被塑造成不人道的。不受欢迎的他者的功能主要是表达适婚年龄的年轻人的恐惧、焦虑、希望和渴望。