Details from the Life of the “Post-War Generation”. Anti-Heroic Discourse in Faruk Šehić’s Prose Cover Image

Crtice iz života generacije pregaženih. Antiherojski diskurs u prozi Faruka Šehića
Details from the Life of the “Post-War Generation”. Anti-Heroic Discourse in Faruk Šehić’s Prose

Author(s): Dina Merdan
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Ethnohistory, Bosnian Literature, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: Faruk Šehić; trauma; war; literature; subversion;

Summary/Abstract: Faruk Šehić’s literary work sublimates the most significant features of anti-war literature in Bosnia and Herzegovina. First of all, it is an interest in the reality of war, an infrequent interference with autobiographical elements that testify about the soldier’s experience of war. Sehić writes authentic stories of war and trauma, ultimately the anti-heroic nature of a one-generation war experience. His work is subversive because it destroys the myth of the heroic experience of war, reducing it to the experiences of deeply traumatized soldiers, who are permanently marked by it.

  • Issue Year: 5/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 229-241
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bosnian