‘Cultural-Memory Literary History’ and 20th Century Bosniak Literature (Literary-Theoretical and Literary-Historical Prolegomena)
‘Cultural-Memory Literary History’ and 20th Century Bosniak Literature (Literary-Theoretical and Literary-Historical Prolegomena)
Author(s): Sanjin KodrićSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: ‘Cultural-Memory Literary History’; 20th century Bosniak (‘Bosnian-Muslim’) literature; 20th century Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature; South-Slavonic interliterary community; cultural memory; literary history; cultural-memory macromodels
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 theories 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 sense’ 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 appealing in the case of Bosniak (‘Bosnian-Muslim’) and Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature, whose newer history of its 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 the compound and polycentric ‘Bosnian-Herzegovinian literary mosaic’.
Journal: Pismo - Časopis za jezik i književnost
- Issue Year: 2009
- Issue No: 07
- Page Range: 196-219
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English