Fenomen hibridnog identiteta i drugosti u romanu Ḥaṭab Sarāyīfū Saʿīda H̱aṭībīja
The Phenomenon of Hybrid Identity and Otherness in Said Khatibi’s Novel Ḥaṭab Sarāyīfū

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the novel Sarajevo Firewood by the Algerian writer Sa’id al-Hatibi in the framework of postcolonial concepts of otherness and hybrid identity. The role of narrator alternates between the character of Ivana, a girl who was born and raised in Bosnia, and Selim, a young man who lives in Algeria. The relationship between these two characters can be seen as a relationship of binary oppositions. Their destinies intersect in Ljubljana, where they end up searching for a better life. Nevertheless, by going to the West, the Others become aware that there is no path leading from the margin to the center, but rather to the predetermined positions of the individual both in the center and on the margin. Through these two characters, the author expands the meanings of otherness by contextualizing them in the third space, i.e. the West, as a topos of universality.

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