ABNORMAL NORMAL GOD’ S PEOPLE

Abstract

This essay considers certain aspects of relationships that are maintained between dominant and suburban culture as shown through the marginalized and diverted characters in Stankovic’ s book God’ s People. Subcultural phenomena, which have been long absent from literary expression (or present on the margins), appear stylistically and thematically shaped in God’ s People. Analyzing the phenomenon of subculture and some ascpect of abnormality the essay gives special attention to Stankovic’ s establishment of dynamic relations with a dominant cultural model. This follows the line which starts on one side with mimicry and insincere participation and ends with acceptance and incrimination. Through this one can see typological differences and the complex relations in and between cultural and subcultural phenomena that are represented in 20th Century Serbian literature.