POLITICAL IN MINOR LITERATURE: THE FIELD OF JEWISH LITERATURE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS Cover Image

POLITIČKO U MANJINSKOJ KNJIŽEVNOSTI: POLJE JEVREJSKE KNJIŽEVNOSTI U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI IZMEĐU DVA SVJETSKA RATA
POLITICAL IN MINOR LITERATURE: THE FIELD OF JEWISH LITERATURE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS

Author(s): Damir Šabotić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Bosnian Literature, Sociology of Culture, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli
Keywords: Bosnian Jews; minority literature; cultural field; identity; assimilation;

Summary/Abstract: Jewish literature in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the two world wars is not the result of a peaceful weaving of tradition, but a constant struggle of different forces that made certain writers and their works important and famous, and marginalized others. The founding of the Jewish newspapers in Bosnia and Herzegovina between two world wars opened the possibility for public debate, polemics, and numerous literary contributions in the Judeo-Spanish and Serbo-Croatian languages. These newspapers show how a field of Jewish literature was formed and how the success of some writers and the oblivion of others was influenced by what we can conditionally call political and which is always present in the structure of the field as a force that regulates, directs, and shapes it.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2022
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 13-26
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bosnian
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