Kad započinje novija bošnjačka književnost?
When does modern Bosniak literature begin?

a contribution to periodization of Bosniak literary history

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the poem Pozdrav (Greetings) by “Mr. Hoca Mehmed-Emin-Efendi”, published in 1866 in the inaugural issue of Bosna, one of the first newspapers printed in the Bosnian Vilayet. It is the first, but now almost completely forgotten poem written in the Bosnian language and the western alphabet in Bosniak literature, that is a poem which is the first, though not sufficiently acknowledged text of modern Bosniak literary practice in general. In this context, the paper discusses the literary-historical problems of the beginnings of modern Bosniak literature, especially the problem of its demarcation of older Bosniak literature. In doing so, and in contrast to the commonly accepted periodization and systematization of Bosniak literature, the paper introduces the concept of the “Pre-Revival period” as a transitional historical-developmental phase between older and modern Bosniak literature at the time of the last decade of the Ottoman rule in Bosnia

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