Open AccessAndrić and Bašagić in the Yugoslavian Key
Author(s) -
Šaćir Filandra
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bosnian studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-0406
pISSN - 1840-3204
DOI - 10.47999/bos.2020.4.1.6-21
Subject(s) - confessional , politics , diversity (politics) , value (mathematics) , identity (music) , perspective (graphical) , political science , national identity , sociology , social science , aesthetics , law , philosophy , art , mathematics , visual arts , statistics
The different views on identity politics in Ottoman Bosnia presented by Ivo Andrić and Safvet-beg Bašagić in their respective doctoral dissertations stem from differences in the historical and socio-economic experiences of each of their respective religious and confessional communities. Andrić, oriented towards the future, perceives Bosnia from the perspective of a newly introduced concept of Yugoslav national unity that does not value diversity. Bašagić, romantically looking into the past, sees Bosnia through rose-coloured glasses. Both Andrić and Bašagić share distinct notions of their historical periods and allow for non-scientific influences to shape their academic discourses.