NARATIVIZACIJA PRAZNINE: SJEĆANJE I SVJEDOČENJE U ROMANU “KOPČA”
NARRATIVIZATION OF EMPTINESS: MEMORY AND TESTIMONY IN THE NOVEL “KOPČA”

Summary/Abstract: Analyzing the autobiographical and fictional dimensions of the novel “Kopča” by Nirha Efendić, its compositional specifics, narrative techniques, and peculiarities of the narrative structure, this paper aims to shed light on the phenomenon of story and storytelling in the context of artistic actualization and articulation of the experience of surviving the Genocide in Srebrenica. Pointing to the compositional mechanisms of “Kopča’, the paper deals with the relationship between the formal, metatextual, and intertextual dimensions of the narrative. Specific ideological positions, often creating patterns of political memory, dictate “acceptable” modes of memorialization of large collective traumas that are reflected in petrified forms of cultural memory. The work aims to analyze how “Kopča” with its poetics of testimony, generates new patterns of individual memory of the Srebrenica Genocide, building a specific narrative space of collective memory and knowledge shaped by the intersection of faith, humanity, and art, which this work seeks to analyze and describe.

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