Changes in the Structure of Identities: Main Theme in Balkan Contemporary Prose Cover Image

Промените во структурата на идентитетите: генерална тема во современата проза на Балканот
Changes in the Structure of Identities: Main Theme in Balkan Contemporary Prose

Author(s): Jasmina Mojsieva-Guševa
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Macedonian Literature, Theory of Literature, Identity of Collectives, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Slavistički komitet BiH
Keywords: changes in the structure of identities; social; temporal and areal determination; legitimizing identity; resistance identity; project identity; Aleksandar Hemon; Lidija Dimkovska;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is about the structural changes of individual identities of the heroes in contemporary Balkan prose. Identity, as the most universal human category is socially, temporally and regionally determined. The changes that occur in these three segments inevitably bring changes in the system of building identities. This issue is frequently in the focus of the interest of many intercultural transitional Balkan authors. In this occasion, we will dwell on the interpretations of changes of literary identities of the heroes in the works of A. Hemon and L. Dimkovska as paradigmatic in different ways of forming one’s identity in the conditions of changing the work environments, to which the authors, as well as their heroes, were subjected.

  • Issue Year: I/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 363-373
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Macedonian