HASANAGINICA - USMENA BALADA U DRAMSKOM STVARALAŠTVU NA PRIMJERU DRAMSKIH TEKSTOVA ALIJE ISAKOVIĆA I NIJAZA ALISPAHIĆA
'HASANAGINICA' - ORAL BALLAD IN DRAMATIC ARTISTIC CREATION THROUGH THE EXAMPLE ON DRAMATIC TEXTS BY ALIJA ISAKOVIĆ AND NIJAZ ALISPAHIĆ

Summary/Abstract: Historical background for dramatic texts about Hasanaginica are the most famous Bosniak folk ballads, and many,widespread legends and oral traditions. The very ballad about the unfortunate Hasanaginica was created in Imotski Krajina, and the main course of balladic action takes place in Vrdol (present-day Zagvozd and Župa) where Hasan-aga Arapovic,known for his famous heroism, had large estates anf the tower, which he likely received through his widely famous warfare. Time of the events can be traced to the end of the first half of the seventeenth century, during the famous Cretan War, when there was changing and movement of the boundaries of the gigantic Ottoman Empire. The unfortunate combination of circumstances caused by primarily socio-cultural causes will push Hasanaginica into the emotional abyss and the tragic death of this women-mother. And when you put together the historical documents, folk legends, and the data which is mentioned in the ballad itself, it is difficult to know what of this really happened, and what was "added by the folk". Perhaps the events were authentic to the ones in the ballad, and mybe only a fragment of all that which is sung and spoke about took place. However, such a profound tragedy, the painful death of an unfortunate woman-mother trapped in an unjustand rigid "caste" system, in which she acted only as a property and the object of the noble "us", whether it was a husband, or a brother, will found its ideal artistic re-registration in the Bosniak dramatic literature. The two top Bosniak playwrighters, Alija Isakovic and Nijaz Alispahic, found their inspiration in this world famous ballad, which resulted in the emergence of two very significant historical drama texts, which occupy the peaks of this genre because of their aestethic value, and also point out to an uninterrupted continuity and carefully nurtured traditional values of Bosniak literature in general. Both dramatic authors have masterfully used the specific constructive process of semantization of dramatic time, because the selection of any historical epoch has an exactly predetermined semantic function in the presentation of the dramatic text. Thankfully because of the multi-media nature of dramatic art, we have a paralled stream of two timeless figures and they are always in a form of symbiosis through the intersection of internal communication system with an external communication system.

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