Između orijentalizma i okcidentalizma: Narativi o iseljavanju Bošnjaka u Tursku u bošnjačkoj književnosti prve polovine 20. stoljeća
Between Orientalism and Occitentalism: Narratives About Emigrations of Bosniaks to Turkey in Bosniak Literature of the First Half of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with literary and publicistic representations of “muhadžirluk” (emigration) Bosniaks to Turkey from the late 19th and first half of the 20th century. Particular attention was dedicated to the various literary representations of this phenomenon in the first half of the 20th century, as well as questions how literary representations followed or subversively related to political discourses of that time. The corpus included representative narrative prose and dramatic texts for the emigration topic, as well as journalistic works of Bosniak authors. Critical analysis showed that literary texts largely followed the dominant narratives on the subject, promoting imagotypes of emigrants, Turkey, the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, “new” and “old” times, and similar. A significant number of texts from this period agitated against emigration to Turkey, but always with a dose of ideological coloration in the author’s perspective, which will determine the character of the literary representation of the emigrate narrative.

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