Književnost kao zrcalo posebnosti i opštosti unutar bošnjačkog kulturnog identiteta
Literature as a Mirror of Generality and Distictiveness Within Bosniak Cultural Identity

Author(s): Sead Šemsović
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Bosnian Literature
Published by: BZK "Preporod" Brčko distrikt Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Bosniak literature; poetics; culture; identity;
Summary/Abstract: The paper is a survey of the stages of Bosniak literary development, along with the relationship between the most significant poetic phenomena of the given time periods and the question of Bosniak identity. As it will be seen, a certain identity image is mirrored in a literary work while, at the same time, the literary work itself tries to develop new identities in its recipients. Furthermore, close attention is directed towards intertextual relations between newer literature and tradition, which is one of the models of cultural memory that helps building literary identity. Through the very same vision of identity, Bosniak literature bears witness to the fact that the history of a national literature can also function as a history of literary taste or a history of searching to understand trauma. Every literary historian makes a choice whether to record a history of change in understanding and experiencing literary aesthetics or to record a history of pain, fear and trauma, as literature offers both.

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