Abstract
Abstract: The Child as an Instrument: Criticism of Titoist Discourse in Aleksandar Hemon’s ‘Islands’ and Alma Lazarevska’s ‘Blagdan krunice’Especially since the war in the 1990s, much Bosnian-Herzegovinian fiction has employed the perspective of the child in order to express criticism of dominant ideological narratives. This article views the child figure as a political device that exposes the mechanisms of certain dominant discourses and that offers new, deviating angles on well-established conceptions within these discourses. The analysis of Alexander Hemon’s short story ‘Islands’ (2000) stresses the grotesque imagery associated with the perception of the boy narrator as a way of ‘unlearning’ notions of Yugoslav modernity as idyllic, even paradisiac. And in Alma Lazarevska’s 2003 ‘Blagdan krunice’ (The Feast of the Rosary) the focus is not so much on the perspective of the boy protagonist as on his function as an arena for projecting narratives of the heroic soldier on the threshold between Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav discourse.
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The Child as an Instrument: Criticism of Titoist Discourse in Aleksandar Hemon’s ‘Islands’ and Alma Lazarevska’s ‘Blagdan krunice’ Especially since the war in the 1990s, much Bosnian-Herzegovinian fiction has employed the perspective of the child in order to express criticism of dominant ideological narratives
I en recension av boken vädrade den amerikanska korrespondenten David Rieff (1994, s. 32), som själv följde kriget på plats, sin frustration över det faktum att »it is the war as seen through a child’s eyes that is being presented as the deepest truth of the Bosnian situation»
Barnet har kommit att bli ett narrativt instrument med en politisk potential
Summary
The Child as an Instrument: Criticism of Titoist Discourse in Aleksandar Hemon’s ‘Islands’ and Alma Lazarevska’s ‘Blagdan krunice’ Especially since the war in the 1990s, much Bosnian-Herzegovinian fiction has employed the perspective of the child in order to express criticism of dominant ideological narratives. 163) är den infantila diskursen som åtföljer barnet, eller det han närmare bestämt kallar »narrationens infantilisering» (infantilizacija naracije), rotad i ett starkt etiskt engagemang hos författare som på 90-talet satte sig för att underminera stora berättelser (särskilt nationalistiska) och förfäkta betydelsen av att skildra den individuella erfarenheten av kriget.
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