Historijska i kulturalna trauma u narativnom (re)definiranju identiteta
Historical and Cultural Trauma in Narrative (Re)Defining Identity

Summary/Abstract: Reflections on the reversal of the consequences of delayed cognition in the minds of victims stigmatized by the traumatic experience of alterity are some of the general points of the thematic range of Bosnian postwar literature. This paper aims to analyze the extent to which authors are torn between the past (the concrete experience of alterity) and the present (redefining identity) in the construction of identity. To this end, the paper examines three memory models: the proscription model, the inscription model, and the prospective memory model. This methodological concept is applicable not only in literary interpretations but also in the analysis of current social rearrangements, as well as in understanding the complexity of the problem of national identity. It is interesting that in some writers’ work this state of being conflicted existed even before the war, but was then articulated through the search for answers on how to transform the whole dramatic experience into a more profiled, homogeneous, and stronger identity.

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