The connection between the fictional world of BH anti-war prose and BH war faction Cover Image

POETIČKI SINKRETIZAM U ROMANU KNJIGA O UNI FARUKA ŠEHIĆA
The connection between the fictional world of BH anti-war prose and BH war faction

Author(s): Azra Ičanović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Pedagoški fakultet Univerziteta u Bihaću
Keywords: anti-war prose; author; character; poetics of experience; poetics;

Summary/Abstract: The Bosnian literary scene from the 90s of XX century onwards is characterized by the so-called anti-warwriting which, born out of rebellion against the often biased and bestowed interpretation of the war, is realized as a literary testimony of war apocalypse. The subject of this paper is the connection between the fictional world of BH anti-war prose and BH war faction. Starting from the hypothesis that the Bosnian war prose is based on the continuous process of merging of fiction and faction which positively affects its poetic establishment, this paper, finding the instantiation in prose creation by Faruk Šehić and fallowing the theory of Mieke Bal and Mikhail Bakhtin, indikates the poetic characteristics and peculiarities of the Bosnian anti-war prose in general and the position of Faruk Šehić within the Bosniancontemoporary literature and seeks to highlight the way in which the anti-war prose combines these two realities. From the work arises conclusion that the Bosnian anti-warwriting is characterized that da Bosnian anti-war prose is characterized by a close encounter of fiction and faction which caused its foundation on two (interrelated and conditioned) poetics: poetics of testimony that is primarily reflected in the selection of narrativ instance and the characterization of character and poetics of exsperience focused on the author as the holder of out-text reality

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 6-7
  • Page Range: 225-237
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bosnian