KNEE – TABLE – SMARTPHONE: LITERATURE AS A CHALLENGE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOSNIAK CULTURAL IDENTITY Cover Image

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KNEE – TABLE – SMARTPHONE: LITERATURE AS A CHALLENGE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOSNIAK CULTURAL IDENTITY

Author(s): Vedad Spahić
Subject(s): Bosnian Literature, Culture and social structure , Theory of Literature
Published by: Bošnjačka zajednica kulture "Preporod"
Keywords: Bosniaks; Bosnian multicultural ensemble; cultural identity; literature; auto-definitions; metaphor of lost river; essential identity concept; post-structural concept of permanent identity reconfigura

Summary/Abstract: Unstable identity generated by parallel and traumatic processes of Europeanization and delayed nationalization is a dominant feature of Bosniak ethnicity. Bosniak culture, under the influence of newly arisen and imported cultural magnetic lines, with all that it carries within, is just entering into an intensive process of fictionalization of more coherent national- cultural identity. Literature, as it did in the past, will homogeneously follow, and to some extent be probably less and less effective, and it will retroactively shape the arrangement of colours of Bosniak identity kaleidoscope.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 387-401
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bosnian