Between Tradition and Political Engagement: Rasim Filipović’s Plays

Abstract

The work will follow the poetic development of plays of writer Rasim Filipović. He published one part of hisplays in a periodical between the two world wars, and the other part as separate literary works. This paper seeks to present the poetics and literary critical reception of hisdramas. Since Filipovic hadedited and adapted some of hisplays in a certain poetical and political context. The author of this text tried to identify tho separts in different variants of the same drama and to show how much the writer, by arranging his text, was susceptible to a certain ideological matrix he followed. Among other things, in this paper there are two dramas that have not been published yet, but have been preserved as a manuscript.

Keywords

• rasim filipović
• drama
• socialrealism
• social literature
• ideology
• tradition