Postmodernist games of recognition in Irfan Horozović's novel Imotski kadija Cover Image

Postmodernističke igre prepoznavanja u romanu Imotski kadija Irfana Horozovića
Postmodernist games of recognition in Irfan Horozović's novel Imotski kadija

Author(s): Elvira Mezit
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Fakultet humanističkih nauka, Univerzitet »Džemal Bijedić« u Mostaru
Keywords: postmodernizam; identitet; subjekt; dijalog; dekonstrukcija; suplement; logocentrizam; falocentrizam; drugi (kao nesvjesno); žudnja; mauzealnost; mise-en-abyme; intertekstualnost; metatekstualnost; parodija; metafikcija; ogledalo; fragmentiranost

Summary/Abstract: This paper interprets a novel called Imotski kadija by Irfan Horozović in the light of postmodern poetics which showed up as a rich soil for its reading. It's a novel which reinterprets the baliad Hasanaginica, but in its narrative tissue introduces conversation with many other texts and cultures. Identity of Imotski kadija is a postmodern dispersed identity. Its subjection doesn't imply a subordination to the society. A woman is shown from the position of phalloccntrism, but there is also a criticism of logocenlrism in the novel. History is a place for a „short story", which isn't whole, but fragmented. The novel characterizes a distinety „awaked" epistyle, and presence of metatextual signals. Typical postmodern terms such as identity, subject, dialogue, deconstruction, supplement, logocentrism, phallocentrism, others (like unconscious), desire, mise-en-abyme, intertextuality, metatextuality, parody, metafiction, mirror , fragmentation, irony have their basis in the text and they are necessary for its understanding.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 271-281
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bosnian