Društvene i Humanističke Studije (Jul 2020)
THE CONSTITUTION OF SANJAK-MONTENGRIN BOSNIAK’S HISTORY WITHIN HUSEIN BAŠIĆ’S PENTALOGY “REPLACEMENTS”
Abstract
The paper analyzes the novel of symbolic titles: Others nests, A gate without a key, Bones and crows, Barren Turkish, White asians, integrated in the roman-fleuve Replacements (2000). The key starting point of this confessional chronicle’s chronotope are the decisions in Berlin with tragic consequences for the Bosniaks who were given the burden of “Turkish guilt” and whose name, national and cultural identity, homeland, state and existence were called into question.The novels represent a literary testimony about a period of historical processes and epochal changes in the Balkans, deeply entrenched within the layered and complex contexts of Bosniak culture and history.With authentic artistic speech, the representation and interpretation of historical dramas and traumas, Bašić awakened the identity and constituted the unwritten history of Sanjak-Montenegrin Bosniaks.
