„Jestem Serbem, serbskim dzieckiem” – miejsce pisarzy wyznających islam na łamach czasopisma „Bosanska vila” (1885–1914)

Abstract

The aim of the article is to answer the question of whether the Muslim writers (Mustafa Hilmi, Riza-beg Kapetanović, Savfet-beg Bagašević, Salih Kazazović, Osman Đikić, Avdo Karabegović, Avdo Karabegović Hasanbegov, Omer-beg Sulejmanpašić-Despotović, Musa Ćatim Ćatić and Šaćir Karabegović Hasanbegov) who submitted their poetry to “Bosanska vila” – Sarajevo’s periodical of Bosnian Serbs published in the years 18851914, participated in the promotion of Serbian national identity. “Bosanska vila” was the first journalism platform enabling the Muslim authors to make a literary debut – this was a strategy used by Serbs to show that Islamic literary output is part of the Serbian linguistic and literary heritage, and by extension, that the Muslims are in fact Serbs. Some of these authors contributed to the propagation efforts in that they revealed their Serbian national sentiment, others were discouraged by the magazine’s policies from further cooperation with the Serbs both literary and otherwise. The analysis of the poems presented in the article can point to which authors actually embraced their Serb identity and who amongst them opposed national declarations altogether.