The Case of 1969 Proud Stumbling – Social and Political Reverberations and Debates Cover Image

Slučaj “Gordog posrtanja” 1969. godine – društveno-politički odjeci i rasprave
The Case of 1969 Proud Stumbling – Social and Political Reverberations and Debates

Author(s): Sabina Veladžić
Subject(s): History, Bosnian Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Institut za istoriju
Keywords: Muslims, Serbs; Rogatica; Bosnia and Herzegovina; World War II; crimes; dark vilayet; Turks; centuries long hatred; the Ustasha; national and cultural intelligence; culture of memory;

Summary/Abstract: The author in the paper provides an analysis of one part of debates and commentaries that in a highly dynamic Yugoslav and B&H social and political context were set in motion following the publication of a part of the novel Gordo posrtanje (Proud Stumbling) by Vojislav Lubarda in Sarajevo literary magazine Život (Life) in 1969. Debates were fueled by a literary interpretation of historical events in Rogatica, a small town in eastern Bosnia during World War II. Controversy of Lubarda’s historical and literary narrative had stemmed from its ideological revisionism and ‘traditional’ Serbian culture of memory which threatened to antagonize interethnic relations and clashed with the proclaimed policy of brotherhood and unity.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 45
  • Page Range: 201-230
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Bosnian