Drama as the Protagonist of Bosniak Cultural Memory Cover Image

Drama kao protagonist kulturnog pamćenja u Bošnjaka
Drama as the Protagonist of Bosniak Cultural Memory

Author(s): Dragan Komadina
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Nationalism Studies, Theory of Literature, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: P.E.N. Centar Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: national identity; drama; Bosniaks; Bosnia; canon of memory; culture of remembrance; historicals myths;

Summary/Abstract: This text wishes to draw attention to how four contemporary dramatists, while dealing with major historical themes and persons from the Medieval context till the present day, (un)consciously participated in building and stabilising of national and historical narratives within the Bosniak memory canon. How much was their creative view affected by the historical myths and did these plays serve as the artistic backdrop in the creation, or, better yet, redefinition and reinterpretation of identity of one of the three ethnicities in our country? Do the dramatists wish to fix the past today, or warn us of its eternal repetition mechanisms in which a man, as an individual, is always at a loss?

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 81-82
  • Page Range: 3-26
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Croatian