POETIKA SVJEDOČENJA U KNJIZI FARUKA ŠEHIĆA POD PRITISKOM
THE POETICS OF WAR WITNESSING IN THE BOOK OF FARUK ŠEHIĆ UNDER PRESSURE
Author(s): Mirza KahvedžićSubject(s): Military history, Bosnian Literature, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli
Keywords: poetics of testimony; war experience from the front; shame on the survivor; debt of the survivor;
Summary/Abstract: This paper is a poetic testimony of the war in Faruk Sehic’s book Under Pressure. The paper defines the poetics of testimony and what it entails. It covers a corpus of short stories that focus on the war experience from the front. The paper discusses the war and its aftermath. Through certain stories he discerned how war affects people and their lives, how heroes perceive war, and how their heroism is presented. Paper tries to investigate the pressure that is present and what it presents. The issue of survivor and survivor shame is problematized. This paper will discuss how death is presented in Sehic’s stories and what the final results of the war are.
Journal: Bosanski jezik
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 111-118
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Bosnian