KONSTRUKCIJA NACIONALNOG IDENTITETA U BOSANSKOHERCEGOVAČKOJ KNJIŽEVNOSTI
CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN LITERATURE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: Bosniak’s oral epic was once named Cinderella of South-Slavic oral tradition by Alois Schmaus; he then saw it as the last in the line, least wanted and detested in its own surrounding, but desired and sought after outside it. Perhaps this metaphor could be appropriately extended to the sphere of identity as well, for Bosniaks as a nation in the process of national identification come last in the line with same or similar relation towards their closer and wider surrounding, though many will say that this process for them is still ongoing. And that is not coincidental, for it is well known that the oral epical tradition was (and in case of Bosniaks still is) the key element in that process, owing to the role assigned to it by German romantics.

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