IVO ANDRIĆ’İN DRİNA KÖPRÜSÜ ADLI ROMANINDA DİNİ VE ETNİK ÇEŞİTLİLİKTEKİ İKİLİ ZITLIKLAR VE HİYERARŞİ
THE DICHOTOMY AND HIERARCHY IN THE BRIDGE ON DRINA BY IVO ANDRIĆ

Summary/Abstract: Due to its geopolitical position and ethnic diversity, the Balkans maintains its spesific position in academic studies. In addition, hosting the plot of The Bridge on Drina by which Ivo Andrić won the Nobel Prize in 1961 has been among significant factors in maintaining the Balkans’ position on agenda. The Bridge on Drina is panorama of Turkish/Muslim, Serbian/Christian, and Jewish citizens living together about four centuries around the Bridge on Drina that links Bosnia and Serbia. While the protogonist of the work is the Bridge on Drina, together with it, we witness the fate of the people living around, the influence of Ottoman Sultanate and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both playing significant role in the change and transformation of the Balkans, and the process of confusion, resistance and adaptation stemming from the downturn of transition from feudal system to the capital one merging with the nationalist discourse of the time. There are hundreds of studies on the Bridge on Drina on international academic fields, however, the related studies in Turkey are limited and they are either on a general evaluation of on the work, or they mostly focus on tolerance and humanism of Ivo Andrić. The aim of this study is revealing that the ethnic and religious diversity in the work is narrated in a hierachy, and leaving aside his humanist ideology, the writer promotes his own ethnicity and religion while indirectly determining the position of the citizens he otherized.

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