Društvene i Humanističke Studije (Jan 2018)
The Issue of Theoretical Definition of Autobiographical Discourse/Genre in the Older Bosniak Literary Tradition in Oriental Languages and the Position Of the Author in the Autobiographies of Ali Pasha Varvari And Ali Riza Stolčevi
Abstract
While researching the manuscripts by Bosniak Muslims in Oriental languages in Bosnian literary criticism, we could notice the different approaches, varying from philological and literary-historical to the theoretical-literary approach, and very often could see the various problems at the level of understanding the essence of the work message. The current theoretical literature is striving to exceed the fluid boundaries of genres, and from the other hand, the personality of the author as a subject of the work has been extremely relativized. Although the term of autobiography seems to be easy to understand, there are several possible interpretations and problems of the pure theoretical nature, in the literary theory. From the other hand, while studying the autobiographies by Bosniaks authors in Oriental languages in Ottoman period, we could also notice some interesting new approaches in current literary criticism, which are insufficient for a proper understanding the theoretical description of the phenomenon itself. In the Bosniaks literature in Oriental languages, the particular problems of poetic conceptualization of authors subject in the text are evident, and they complicate the reception of just complicated term of poetic and biographical self-reference, together with the manners of overemphasized auto-reference. The mentioned issues in the scope of theoretical boundaries of definitions, as well as the other significant issues in the field, are described in this work.
