Modeli kulturalnog pamćenja i interkulturalna preplitanja u bošnjačkoj / bosanskohercegovačkoj književnosti 20. stoljeća
Models of cultural memory and intercultural interweaving in the 20th century Bosniak / Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature

Summary/Abstract: Theoretical ideas about cultural memory find their fertile soil in the field of literary history as well, where there also emerges the possibility of conceiving a literary history founded on fundamental assumptions of the theory of cultural memory – the so called cultural-memory literary history – as one of the “new literary histories”. Oriented both literarily and culturally, this type of literary history considers literature one of the forms of cultural memory, focusing especially on the problem of “privileged cultural meaning” and “culturally signified” which is, continuously or discontinuously, communicated in a literature, constituting its “internal” history in this way. In this regard, apart from a number of other methodological advantages, such as the interest in the problem of intercultural issues, cultural-memory literary history seems to be particularly suitable in the case of culturally complex communities and communities which, in the time which is unfavourable to the traditional history of literature, make efforts to write for the first time or to re-read their own literary-cultural history, which makes it very close to other contemporary orientations in the field of literary history. All this makes cultural-memory literary history particularly attractive in the case of Bosniak and Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature, whose newer history of scholarly treatment will most frequently indicate the need for such a literary-historical approach capable of finding a way which takes into account the complexity of compound and polycentric “Bosnian-Herzegovinian literary mosaic”. In relation to this, looking from the methodological perspective of the issues of cultural-memory-founded literary history – there are three possible fundamental general patterns of cultural memory in both the 20th century Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Bosniak literature, but – considering numerous developmental and contextual interconnections or interrelations, closeness and correspondence – to a great extent in wider scope of South-Slavonic inter-literary community too: canonical, poly-traditional and post-canonical cultural-memory macro-models, each one with a significantly different concrete position and literary task within the entirety of culture and society to which it belongs. These cultural-memory macro-models in Bosniak and Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature follow each other in strict chronological order, which constitutes particular dynamism of these two literatures in a wide span from the utilitarianism of the “National Reformation” period at the end of the 19th century to the contemporary “poetics of witnessing” at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.

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