Original scientific paper
Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Yugoslav and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Socio-Political and Ideational Struggles (from Mid-1960s to the Beginning of 1970s)
Sabina Veladžić
; Institut za historiju Univerziteta u Sarajevu, Sarajevo
Abstract
In the paper, author shows how the reconstitution and decentralization of socialist Yugoslavia in the 1960s, as well asthe legitimization of national question and affirmation ofYugoslav federal units as national and socio-cultural entities, reflected on the organizational structure of the Writers' Union of Yugoslavia, as well as on the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. How the political elite of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as part of their effort to move its republic from the periphery of political and cultural power to a more equal position, tried to implement the Bosnian cultural policythrough the Association. Within the mentioned policy Bosnian political elite strive to define more precisely and to determine the literary-linguistic identity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In theprocess of defining the cultural identity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, cultural intelligentsia played the role of dominant producers of discourse and was mainly gathered within the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In her work the author shows how the Serbo-Croatian national-cultural disputes were revived at that time reflecting the work of the Association, provoking the inner conflicts within it, conflicts that destabilazed not only Bosnian Association of Writers but the Republic (B&H) itself.Author presents ideological, conceptual side of the conflicts but its „practical“ essence as well.Key “dilemma” that has been implicitly imposed through the work is whether the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, just like the republic itself, was an unstable, artificial organization that gathered intelligence deeply divided by ideological and national-cultural boundaries, or it was the organization / republic that the exponents Serbian and Croatian national exclusivism, with a certain political goal, tried, within public discourse, to present as such.
Keywords
Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bosnian and Herzegovinian cultural identity; Bosnian and Herzegovinian cultural policy; Central Committee of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatian Spring
Hrčak ID:
232247
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Publication date:
1.5.2019.
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