RELIGIOUS POETRY OF THE BOSNIAC POETS "OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM" (2) Cover Image

POBOŽNA POEZIJA BOŠNJAČKIH PJESNIKA "IZVAN MATICE"(2)
RELIGIOUS POETRY OF THE BOSNIAC POETS "OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM" (2)

Author(s): Zilhad Ključanin
Subject(s): Poetry, Bosnian Literature, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Rijaset Islamske zajednice u Bosni i Hercegovini
Keywords: Religious poetry; Bosnian muslims; Bosniak poetry; Culture; Enver Colakovic; Salih Alic; Refad Kadic;

Summary/Abstract: The poets of the so-called "internal exile" represent a special kind of poets within the 20'" century Bosniac poetry. The "internal exile" is the condition in which poets in socialists countries find themselves when they are neither imprisoned nor is their work banned by some official document, but who, nevertheless, cannot publish their works due to some "tacit agreement" between the state and the cultural officials. Those are the writers "blacklisted by the Communists", sentenced by the system to isolation for various "sins" they have committed against it (the system). Their isolation is not absolute, they sometimes, albeit very rarely, get to publish some of their works. Such works are mostly not real literature (translations, historical documents and detectives stories published under pseudonyms). The most famous such poets are: Enver Colakovic, Salih Alic, Refad Kadic, Hanumica Zekic.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 29-36
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bosnian