Dekonstrukcija tranzicijskog oportunizma u romanu Sedam strahova Selvedina Avdića
Deconstruction of Transitional Opportunism in Selvedin Avdic's Novel Seven Fears

Author(s): Ernad Osmić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Social development, Nationalism Studies, Theory of Literature, Globalization, Identity of Collectives
Published by: BZK "Preporod" Brčko distrikt Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: opportunism; psychoanalysis; myth; identity; transition;
Summary/Abstract: War as a limit situation represents a national split both in an ideological and a identitary sense. Literature in postwar countries is, accordingly, often a field in which the reality of war is not just being processed, but also where the identity of a nation is being (de)constructed. In the case of the Bosnian- Herzegovinian identity, which was in a crisis even decades before the war in the 1990’s, this construction (or deconstruction) is still happening in literature. In novels such as Sedam strahova (Seven fears) by Selvedin Avdic this kind of war background for constructing an identity takes on a kind of mythical dimension, trying to “explain” the genesis of negative postwar social phenomena such as war profiteering, opportunism and overall moral decadency.

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