Urh Ferlež
How is one's own homeland remembered from afar? What factors influence this? What constitutes nostalgia and why are some images so strongly anchored in our minds? Urh Ferlež poses these and other questions in his dissertation on literature by emigrants of Slovenian origin.
In his dissertation, Urh Ferlež examines the works of Slovenian authors who emigrated for various reasons and in different eras, such as France Papež, Tone Rode, Zorko Simčič and Tine Debeljak, whose traces he is currently following as part of a research stay in Argentina. He is particularly interested in how his own homeland is perceived and remembered over time. Is it demonised or idealised?
