Representation/Construction of Bosniak National and Cultural Identity in Edhem Mulabdić's Green Turf Cover Image

Reprezentacija/konstrukcija bošnjačkog nacionalnog i kulturnog identiteta u Zelenom busenju Edhema Mulabića
Representation/Construction of Bosniak National and Cultural Identity in Edhem Mulabdić's Green Turf

Author(s): Dženan Kos
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Novel, Bosnian Literature
Published by: BZK "Preporod" Brčko distrikt Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: identity; representation/construction; culture; novel;
Summary/Abstract: At this significant moment in time ‒ the shift of two empires in which takes place the dramatic change in social and cultural paradigm and culture and civilization model, Edhem Mulabdić in his novel “Zeleno busenje“ shapes the distinctive imaginative constructions that reflect the ambivalent attitude of his narrative towards the occupation as a historic act and Austro-Hungarian colonization as a norm of the new age. At the time of the first contact with the Austro-Hungarians, narrative intentionally forms stereotypical ideas of the Bosniak community, which unconditionally accepts and adopts the cultural and historical value of the new time, and already in the next moment, on the basis of the enlightenment ideology, builds a liberating vision of the future of the nation.

  • Page Range: 111-124
  • Page Count: 14
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Language: Bosnian