Subverzivni identiteti u bošnjačkoj usmenoj epici
Subversive Identities in the Bosniak Oral Epic

Summary/Abstract: The Bosniak oral epic offered a palette of interesting epic heroes, who by their basic characteristics are completely convincingly functioning as complex literary characters. They are, on the basis of recognizable epic identities, with several emphasized features (heroism, individualism, fighting attitude towards the world, ethics), structured so that they are open to new living contents from their plate of simplicity and closure. For this process of filling in life’s content, we have borrowed Jonathan Culler’s term vraisemblance, which we can translate as credibility, and relates to the writer’s need to bring a higher degree of conviction into the world of work. Thus, the mythical figure of Đerzelez Alija, through the psychological process, moved from the mythological center in the dynamic and marginal area of the borderland, the fearless hero Mujo Hrnjica was given the opportunity to feel and show fear and move to a rich female environment, while the bright antihero Budalina Tale with its Renaissance carnival spirit, shows the highest degree of openness to the other. Life-filled and additionally authenticated, these identities outweigh the basic identity postulates of closeness and exclusion to another.

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