Bośnia i Hercegowina. Kultura, literatura, język, polityka
Bosnia and Herzegovina. Culture, Literature, Language, Politics
Contributor(s): Anetta Buras-Marciniak (Editor)
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bosnian Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Bosnian language; Bosnians; economic and political crisis in Yugoslavia; literary works of women in Bosnia; Bosnia and Herzegovina
Summary/Abstract: The next volume in the series “The Balkans in the 20th and 21st Centuries” presents an overview of issues related to contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina. Each chapter covers a distinct thematic area: culture, literature, language and politics. The publication has been intended to provide a repository of knowledge about the federal state formed after the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia. The collection of studies paints a detailed picture of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Investigated from an external perspective, the phenomena occurring in the literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as issues related to language or to the political and economic conditions reveal the mental burden caused by the tragic war of the twentieth century’s last decade – in a country that structurally remains an immutable ethnic and cultural borderland. On the other hand, from the Bosnian authors' internal perspective, the analyses relate to the present as well as the distant past, uncovering the topics of the Ottoman heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina that were suppressed or censored during the “brotherhood and unity” period of the federal Yugoslavia. From the review of prof. dr hab. Lilla Moroz-Grzelak (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Series: Uniwersytet Łódzki
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-8142-584-1
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-8142-583-4
- Page Count: 304
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: Polish
Smijemo se jer smijemo. Humor kao sredstvo preživljavanja
Smijemo se jer smijemo. Humor kao sredstvo preživljavanja
(We laugh because we can. Humor as a means of survival)
- Author(s):Marinko Zekić
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):History, Language and Literature Studies
- Page Range:23-42
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bosnian humor; war-themed jokes; black humor; social role of humor in conflicted societies
- Summary/Abstract:In spite of the many life challenges they face on a daily basis, humor has never left Bosnians and Herzegovinians. Particularly during the most tumultuous times in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s history, such as the 1992–1995 war, humor served as a means of pursuing self-preservation and a higher purpose, by which at least for a moment they could combat against the horrors of war they were witnessing. Having little other means to cope with their situation, Bosnia and Herzegovinians showed that a sense of humor – the characteristic method of producing and perceiving jokes – could also inspire optimism, empathy and hope, especially today, when after surviving the war they needed to learn how to survive in peace. This paper discusses the issue of whether the serious and painful topic of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina can be debated by overcoming spoken and written discourse with the help of irony and black humor in the form of jokes; whether or not there is a place for humor in describing the human tragedy and trauma caused by the war. Humor and laughter as recourse, through mockery instead of despair and self-pity over an unfortunate reality, impose themselves as the most appropriate way of dealing with the everyday problems that life brings.
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Od „Spavača pod kamenom“ do „Kamenog spavača“ Maka Dizdara: o povijesti knjige i arheologiji teksta
Od „Spavača pod kamenom“ do „Kamenog spavača“ Maka Dizdara: o povijesti knjige i arheologiji teksta
(From the “Sleeper under the stone” to the “Stone sleeper” by Mak Dizdar (on history of the book and archaeology of the text))
- Author(s):Sanjin Kodrić
- Language:Bosnian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Poetry, Philology
- Page Range:43-66
- No. of Pages:24
- Keywords:Mak Dizdar; Stone sleeper; manuscript heritage; critical edition
- Summary/Abstract:The paper offers an insight into some preliminary results of a more general literary-historical and textological research of Mak Dizdar’s manuscript heritage, first of all the poetry collection Stone sleeper, the most important author’s book and one of the most important books of Bosniak and Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature in general. Special attention is given to some key issues of history of the text of the Stone sleeper in the context of the author’s manuscript collection as well as to the modes of its textological historical-critical reading. Along with opening of new research perspectives, some key foundations for the preparation of a critical edition of Dizdar’s most important poetry book are laid in this way.
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Trauma oraz strategie pamięci i zaświadczania w kobiecych narracjach (anty)wojennych w literaturze Bośni i Hercegowiny. Opowieści – rodzaj żeński, liczba mnoga Šejli Šehabović
Trauma oraz strategie pamięci i zaświadczania w kobiecych narracjach (anty)wojennych w literaturze Bośni i Hercegowiny. Opowieści – rodzaj żeński, liczba mnoga Šejli Šehabović
(Trauma, strategies of memory and testimony in women’s (anti)war narratives in literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Plural Noun of Feminine Gender by Šejla Šehabović)
- Author(s):Magdalena Koch, Katarzyna Dylewska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):History, Language and Literature Studies, Gender history, Bosnian Literature
- Page Range:67-92
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:trauma; short story; écriture féminine; literature of testimony; war literature; feminine gender; Šejla Šehabović; Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Summary/Abstract:The subject of the article is collection of Šejla Šehabović’s short stories A Plural Noun of Feminine Gender (Priče – ženski rod, množina) as an example of the women’s Bosnian (anti)war prose. The stories are interpreted by analysing trauma present in narratives, ways in which traumatic memories are remembered and how the memories are presented in a story. Particular attention is devoted to the narrative itself, which in many aspects is viewed as a form of articulation of trauma. The analysis focuses on the feminine perspective in war experience as well as its differences from previous predominantly masculine narratives. The article indicates the relationship between traumatic narrative, literature of testimony and women’s writing.
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Pismo prijatelju (o Andrićevoj noveli „Pismo iz 1920“)
Pismo prijatelju (o Andrićevoj noveli „Pismo iz 1920“)
(A letter to a friend (about Andric’s short story “Pismo iz 1920”))
- Author(s):Perina Meić
- Language:Bosnian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Short Story
- Page Range:93-109
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Ivo Andrić; Pismo iz 1920; Maks Levenfeld; Bosna; a letter
- Summary/Abstract:Andrić’s short story, Pismo iz 1920 will be analyzed in this text. The story describes the encounter of a narrator (who doesn’t have a name) with his friend (from period of the childhood) Maks Levenfeld. Andrić’s story was often interpreted with regards to thesis which emphasizies an idea that Bosnia is country of hatred (that is the main thesis of Maks’s letter which is one part of the text). Such types of criticism often had an ideological motives and avoided to analyze complex nature of this literary text. In the basic structure of the story is the main motive which describes a relationship between a subject and authority (that fact, among others, confirms the existence psychoanalytic aspects in this text). The figure of authority is represented by Max Levenfeld’s character. Beside that Pismo iz 1920 is the story about growing up, and intellectual maturity and also story about the one’s attempts to be free from influence of authority. It is also a story about the art and its power to change reader’s point of view by ironic modus.
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Poezija za djecu u Bosni i Hercegovini
Poezija za djecu u Bosni i Hercegovini
(Poetry for children in Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Author(s):Muris Bajramović
- Language:Bosnian
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Poetry, Bosnian Literature
- Page Range:111-137
- No. of Pages:27
- Keywords:children’s literature; poem; poetry
- Summary/Abstract:In this paper author wrote about contemporary Bosnia and Hercegovina poetry for children. Themes are different and poets like Alija Dubocanin, Ivica Vanja Roric, Muahrem Omrevic, Bisera Alikadic, Ismet Bekric and others are writing about nature, family members, school, play, etc. Somteimes these children’s poems are more didactic, some poems are descriptive and some are more artistic.
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Twórczość literacka kobiet w Bośni i Hercegowinie po 1990 roku na wybranych przykładach
Twórczość literacka kobiet w Bośni i Hercegowinie po 1990 roku na wybranych przykładach
(Women’s writing in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1990 on some examples)
- Author(s):Anna Modelska-Kwaśniowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):History, Language and Literature Studies, Bosnian Literature
- Page Range:139-164
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:women’s writing in Bosnia and Herzegovina; literature after 1990 in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Alma Lazarevska; Ferida Duraković; Šejla Šehabović
- Summary/Abstract:The paper presents the women’s writing in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1990. The main representative authors of contemporary women’s literature are described. The most interesting questions and problems, the most frequently occuring topics are also analyzed.
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Ustanove nacionalnog pamćenja u Bosni i Hercegovini, historijska ishodišta njihove konvergencije i paralelizmi u njihovoj praksi danas
Ustanove nacionalnog pamćenja u Bosni i Hercegovini, historijska ishodišta njihove konvergencije i paralelizmi u njihovoj praksi danas
(National memory institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, historical origins of their convergence and parallelisms of their practices today)
- Author(s):Lejla Kodrić Zaimović
- Language:Bosnian
- Subject(s):History, Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Library and Information Science
- Page Range:165-201
- No. of Pages:37
- Keywords:national memory; heritage institutions; archives; libraries and museums; heritage institutions’ convergence
- Summary/Abstract:Bosnian-Herzegovinian heritage institutions share unique historical origin as, after all, is the case of many other heritage institutions, starting with their initial establishment in the ancient history. Today’s Bosnian-Herzegovinian heritage institutions’ convergence is resulting from their common historical origin, but it is also shaped by their later development trends regarding professional, legal and academic framework, all that followed by obvious influences of information and communication technologies of today. The paper follows parallelisms between important Bosnian-Herzegovinian national memory institutions – archives, libraries and museums – from their inception, establishment of professional, legal and academic framework to the complex social roles realizing today. Besides, their convergence is recognized as the most fruitful framework of their social activities, both in the past and today.
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Dinamika u razmjenskom sloju kulturnog identiteta: istraživanje slučaja turcizama u srpskohrvatskom
Dinamika u razmjenskom sloju kulturnog identiteta: istraživanje slučaja turcizama u srpskohrvatskom
(The dynamics in the interaction lexical layer of cultural identity: a case study of Near Eastern loanwords in Serbo-Croatian)
- Author(s):Danko Šipka
- Language:Bosnian
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
- Page Range:203-213
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:loanwords; linguistic contacts; cultural identity; lexical changes; Serbo-Croatian
- Summary/Abstract:The author analyzes a sample of approximately ten percent of entries from Škaljić (1966), a classic dictionary of Near Eastern loanwords in Serbo-Croatian, to determine the present-day status of these loanwords. The analysis demonstrates very clearly that a vast majority of these loanwords is out of use in standard language, replaced by non-Near- Eastern, mostly inherited Slavic lexicon (61.9% of the sample). Another sizeable group is defunct vocabulary given that the realities they refer to are not in use anymore (19.8 of the sample). Only a limited number of entries of 18.3% are still in standard language use, most of them (13.7% of the sample) restricted in some way (by the field of usage, register, etc.). These results serve as a correction in the comparison between the loanwords in Slavic languages, where it would seem that Near Eastern loanwords sharply divide Serbo-Croatian from Russian, Polish and many other Slavic languages. At the same time, they debunk nationalist myths about a special role of Near Eastern loanwords in separating ethnic variants of standard Serbo Croatian.
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Status bosanskog jezika u doba osmanske i austrougarske uprave Bosnom
Status bosanskog jezika u doba osmanske i austrougarske uprave Bosnom
(The status of the Bosnian language in the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Bosnia)
- Author(s):Jasmin Hodžić
- Language:Bosnian
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
- Page Range:215-242
- No. of Pages:28
- Keywords:Bosnian language; social status; history; Serbo-Croatian language; Vienna literary agreement
- Summary/Abstract:The paper analyzes the status issues of the Bosnian language at the time of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Bosnia. Synthetic, here are exposed the relevant facts about the Bosnian language and it’s social status, the official use, and it’s status in education and literature, with a focus on scientific development. In particular, we gain insight about the relationship between the Bosnian and Serbo-Croatian language in synchronic and diachronic approach.
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Afera Agrokomerc w kontekście kryzysu gospodarczego i politycznego w Jugosławii lat osiemdziesiątych
Afera Agrokomerc w kontekście kryzysu gospodarczego i politycznego w Jugosławii lat osiemdziesiątych
(The Agrokomerc affair in the context of economic and political crisis in the 1980s Yugoslavia)
- Author(s):Marcin Antczak, Anetta Buras-Marciniak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):History, Economy, National Economy
- Page Range:243-259
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Bosnia; Yugoslavia; economy; crisis; reforms
- Summary/Abstract:The paper presents the Agrokomerc affair – an economic scandal that resulted in fall of the influential Pozderac family, veterans of the communist movement in Bosnia. These events are analyzed in their wider context – the crisis in the whole Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, failed reform attempts and Slobodan Milošević’s rise to power. Theories about the alleged political character of the whole matter are also discussed.
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Bośniackie metafory i ich polityczne znaczenie
Bośniackie metafory i ich polityczne znaczenie
(Bosnian metaphors and their political meaning)
- Author(s):Magdalena Rekść
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Politics, Language and Literature Studies
- Page Range:261-279
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:Bosnia and Hercegovina; identity politics; metaphor; myths; symbols; stereotypes
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of the text is to examine the role of metaphors in political debates about Bosnia and Hercegovina. Many authors underline that the metaphors are widely used for explaining complicated problems and Bosnian case is not an easy one. There is no doubt that the majority of popular metaphors about this country refer to its multinational and multicultural heritage. Some of them are positive and some of them are negative depending on the ideological and political context. One should keep in mind that oriental stereotype can be defined in various ways, sometimes oriental values are affirmed and sometimes are stigmatized.
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Boszniacy bośniaccy – Boszniacy gorańscy
Boszniacy bośniaccy – Boszniacy gorańscy
(Bosniacs from Bosnia – Bosniacs from Gora (Kosovo))
- Author(s):Jolanta Mindak-Zawadzka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language studies, Islam studies, Politics and Identity
- Page Range:281-288
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Balkan ethnic identity; Slavs Muslims; Bosnia; Kosovo; Islam; Bogomiles; ethnopolitical ideology and mythology
- Summary/Abstract:The paper presents some crucial similarities and differences between Bosniacs (slavonic Muslims) from Bosnia and from Kosovo (both in former Yugoslavia). The ethnonym Bosniac (Bošnjak), recently widely accepted among post-yugoslavian Slavs-Muslims, doesn’t need any explanation if used with references to the part of Bosnian population. The case of Goran Bosniacs demands however a more detailed approach.
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Bośnia i Hercegowina. Sytuacja społeczno-gospodarcza
Bośnia i Hercegowina. Sytuacja społeczno-gospodarcza
(Bosnia and Herzegovina. Socio-economic situation)
- Author(s):Anetta Buras-Marciniak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Politics, Economy, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
- Page Range:289-303
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:Bosnia and Herzegovina; economy; European Union; politics
- Summary/Abstract:Bosnia and Herzegovina has existed as a sovereign state since March 1992. It was then that they proclaimed their independence, following the example of Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia, which ultimately led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia and was one of the reasons for the outbreak of civil war. The economy that was destroyed in the 1992–1995 war has been still recovering. In the post-war years (1998–2008), there was a significant economic growth reported. The 2008 world crisis caused a slowdown in the economy of Bosnia and there was a very low increase recorded until 2014. In 2015, the economic situation started to improve. In the next year, the country applied for EU’s membership. In September, the application was approved and Bosnia became the EU associated country. Unfortunately, the years 2017 and 2018 brought another economic and political crisis. The article aims at presenting the current economic and political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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