SLIKA HERCEGOVINE U BOSANSKOHERCEGOVAČKIM PUTOPISIMA
IMAGE OF HERZEGOVINA IN BOSNIAN AND HERZEGOVINIAN TRAVELOGUES

Summary/Abstract: The paper based on the example of the travelogues of ten Bosnian authors (I. F. Jukić, G. Martić, I. Andrić, H. Humo, Z. Džumhur, J. Beran, A. Isaković, I. Kajan, R. Mahmutćehajić, and A. Žetica) analyses the impressions and ideas about Herzegovina with the view of basic imagological assumptions. In order not to fall into an analytical dead end, it is irst necessary to place the authors in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian context and determine his literary-historical era, focusing on each individual text, keeping in mind precisely his genre (travelogue) and thematic region (Herzegovina). Travelogues as a privileged type of text for understanding of the “writing of the Other” or “writing about the Other” are a useful and thematically rich material, wherein the construction of images of Herzegovina is followed, without dealing with its veracity, but rather with its efectiveness in the cultural and communicational domain. he analysis shows that the problem of travelogue as a literary-historical phenomenon is still relevant, while the ofered imagological analysis could be one of the key prerequisites for the literary-historical approach. he chosen geographic area as the theme of the travelogues proved to be an interesting material for the study of the characteristics of national self-understanding. In this regard, the term he Travelogue Herzegovina was coined as a genre and regional concept.

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