PJESME O PRERUŠENOJ DJEVOJCI U BOŠNJAČKOJ USMENOJ TRADICIJI
SONGS ABOUT A DISGUISED GIRL IN BOSNIAK ORAL TRADITION

Summary/Abstract: We encounter songs about a disguised girl in our oral tradition throughout the history of its recording – from Erlangen Manuscript, over Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic's collection, to the collections made in the second half of the twentieth century. In those songs a girl disguises as a man in most cases to replace her aged father in a battle. She fights and lives a life of a warrior side by side with men, but manages to keep her female identity hidden from male comrades, going wisely and skillfully through all ordeals by which they try to uncover her. In the end she reveals her identity in order to mock them and escape as a winner.

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