NOMADIZAM I PITANJE IDENTITETA U ROMANU NIGDJE, NIOTKUDA BEKIMA SEJRANOVIĆA
NOMADISM AND THE QUESTION OF IDENTITY IN NOWHERE, FROM NOWHERE BY BEKIM SEJRANOVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: The world in which we live today is in many ways different from the one in which it was lived just a few decades ago. Under the shade of unsafe and uncertain future, the essential topics are dark scenarios and the questions of survival. In the environment like that, not only do the massive and cruel economically and existentially motivated migrations happen, but also the frequent exile for different reasons, which becomes a lifestyle. This work explores the position of Bekim Sejranović in comparison with the dominantly globalist concept of nomadism as a cultural obsession with transformation. In his case, nomadism presents the aspect of the search for oneself and the resistance to permanent place of residence, entrenched social practices, and totalitarian authorities, as well as the ultimate attempt to live freely and at full speed. That kind of idea is also conveyed throughout the novel by Bekim Sejranović titled Nowhere, From Nowhere (2009), as well as in his other work. Nomadism and exile become not only the narrator’s destiny, but also his worldview and kind of a pursuit for some lost or feigned world. Inseparable from this is, surely, the question of identity which is often fluid or emptied from the content in this era, that it is almost impossible to define it today. The constant redefining of identity and the search for oneself are exactly what is portrayed in this novel by Sejranović.

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