Literarization of Cultural History in Explorative Reading of Mostar’s Past (study essay on Kajan’s Mostar vedutas) Cover Image

Beletrizacija kulturne povijesti u istraživačkom prečitavanju prošlosti Mostara (studijski esej o Kajanovim mostarskim vedutama)
Literarization of Cultural History in Explorative Reading of Mostar’s Past (study essay on Kajan’s Mostar vedutas)

Author(s): Vedad Spahić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Bosnian Literature, Present Times (2010 - today), Identity of Collectives
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli
Keywords: city; cultural history; identity; literarization of history; hermeneutical circle;

Summary/Abstract: Ibrahim Kajan's longstanding interest in cultural history of Mostar was published in a book in 2014 called „The City of Great Light” which eventually shaped itself as a literary cultural- historical monograph of the city. Individual texts shaped in the form of vedutas about famous Mostar's buildings, without neglecting urbanistic-architectoral legacy as its primary thematic fixation, quintessentially deal with urban identity and its traditional mainstreaming as well as deviations which are a consequence of urbicidal and culturocide destructions during the last decade of the 20th century and which insidiously exist until present day. Kajan’s code of reading cultural history of the city functions according to the principle of Gadamer-like hermeneutical circle. Participants inside the cyclical mechanism, which strives to logically, aesthetically and interpretatively close itself and establish a harmonious relationship of mutual conditionality, are: writer – city – history – identity.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 56-60
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Bosnian