Problem ruba i centra u bošnjačkoj epici (O krajiškom / graničnom identitetu još jednom)
Problem of Edge and Center in Bosniak Epic Poetry (On Boderland / Border Identity Once More)

Summary/Abstract: In the corpus of over forty songs I deal with different aspects of the epic personality of the hero Đerzelez Ali, which I justify by fact that hero is the most important segment of an epic narrative. Epic action in the borderland epics outgrown some classic forms and developed, according to Schmaus, all to epic (epos), and in this complex action hero could not remain flatly simple either. All the complexities of his personality can no longer cover the term “hero”, so, looking for a better one, I come up to the term “character”, taken from written literature, insisting in this way on the exact same model of motivation processes. In a larger corpus of poems, something that departs from the stereotyped performances is seen, so, in addition to the previously observed mythological one, I re cognize borderland and family dimension of this character as well. These three separate sets of features give me the right to conclude that here, in fact, we are talking about the dynamics rather than statics, about the character who, simply, develops in the same way as his close and distant relatives of written literature, especially novels. It was extremely exciting to notice sophisticated techniques of transformation of the mythical Đerzelez into a borderland hero in the poem Bećir Bey’s Wedding by Halil Bajgorić, techniques and procedures of its spacial and symbolic transfer from the forgotten center to the exciting border of the Empire. And after all these adventures in space, our hero had to cope with the center in himself in the poem Gerzelez Ali from the collection of Mehmed Dž. Kurt.

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