The Racin Essays – A Key Phase in the National Awakening

  • Vesna Mojsova-Chepishevska Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia

Abstract

Kosta Solev Racin (КоÑта Солев Рацин) is indeed a timeless impetus, since he is received both as symptom and symbol of the most crucially defining phase in the evolution of macedonian national awakening. Racin’s journalistic and essayistic stand as the token representative of the scientific essay of its time. In this particular article, my own interests are solely focused on the three essays on the Bogomils, written and published in the period between 1939 and 1940, due to various occasions, as well as the articles “Towards a Clearer understanding of Our Past†and “The Development and the Meaning of a New Kind of Literature of Oursâ€, which bears the aesthetic and literary-historical attributes of a literary manifesto.

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Култура/Culture No 1-2 (2011)
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MOJSOVA-CHEPISHEVSKA, Vesna. The Racin Essays – A Key Phase in the National Awakening. Култура/Culture, [S.l.], n. 1-2, p. 61-70, sep. 2014. ISSN 1857-7725. Available at: <http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/7>. Date accessed: 03 mar. 2026.
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scientific essay, recontextualization, re-mythologizing, national consciousness, ma­ce­do­ni­an national awakening
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