Jedno žensko sjećanje na bosanskohercegovački socijalizam 1980-ih i njegov kraj: Melika Salihbegov(ić)
One Female Remembrance of Bosnian Socialism 1980s and its End: Melika Salihbegov(ić)
Author(s): Sabina VeladžićSubject(s): Gender Studies, Political history, Social history, Gender history, Bosnian Literature, Social Theory, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Theory of Literature, Sociology of Politics, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Institut za istoriju
Keywords: Melika Salihbegović; women’s writing; Bosnian socialism of the 1980s; Sarajevo Process; Islam; Muslims; feminism; nationalism; State Security Service; social isolation and ostracism; Bosnia;
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to present in an integral form selected sources from the “Melika Salihbegović” collection, archived in the Museum of Literature and Performing Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It seeks to illuminate one woman’s inner world, voice, writings, her perception of social, ideological, political reality and the structures of institutional power during socialist period in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the late 1970s and 1980s. Since the writer Melika Salihbegov(ić) was detained, trialed, and convicted in the Sarajevo Process of 1983, the sources presented here offer a poignant insight into the ways in which repression by state and so-called security authorities – and also social ostracism, which, as the sources suggest, aimed to erase the visibility of her person and her voice in the public sphere – along with social isolation, took a toll on the body, mind, and soul of a woman who, driven uncompromisingly by deep conviction, sought to affirm herself publicly as a free political being and cultural creator.
Journal: Historijska traganja
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 23
- Page Range: 291-381
- Page Count: 91
- Language: Bosnian
