Između krajnosti: Kritički identitet Muhsina Rizvića u optici metakritike
Between the Extremes: Critical Identity of Muhsin Rizvić from the Perspective of Metacriticism

Author(s): Erna Murić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Cultural Essay, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: BZK "Preporod" Brčko distrikt Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: critical reception; affirmative recycling; intercultural comparative studies; national identity; national discourse;
Summary/Abstract: From the perspective of modern literary theory, the development of literary criticism in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1945 on is characterized by constant balancing between positivism and impressionism, the interrelationship between academic and political discourse and amateurish use of theoretical terminology. Literary criticism in Bosnia and Herzegovina did not reach the level of postmodern hybridity until the post-war period. The critical approaches to the works of Muhsin Rizvić and his personality can, with some necessary simplification, be positioned between two opposite reception poles: the negative critical pole (Kazaz, Ibrahimović), which takes the position of radical poststructuralist revisionism of literary history, on the one side, and the positive critical pole (Maglajlić, Džanko), which glorifies Rizvić’s works and the role it had at the time when it was written, on the other. There is also a third critical pole, whose strategy can be termed as affirmative recycling. The middle road, outside of the apologetic or leveling discourse proved to be the most appropriate to the present situation which in its statement requires the right to diversity.

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