Nikolina Kulidžan : Across the River
Before the war you actually had to ask people’s names to know who they were. Now you can just observe what side of the river they live on. On the east side are the Bosniaks […]
Volume 05 No. 4 (2010): October
Thomas J. Butler : Between East and West: Three Bosnian Writer-Rebels: Kočić, Andrić, Selimović
Bordered by rivers and the Dinaric range, mountainous Bosnia, which once was an independent kingdom, has always been difficult for outsiders to conquer and control. The Ottoman Empire, which entered the country at the invitation […]
Neval Berber : Unveiling Bosnia-Herzegovina in British Travel Literature (1844-1912)
The first evidence of an English travel interest in Bosnia-Herzegovina emerged at the end of the 16th century, an interest, however, that was short-term in the extreme and came to a quick end in the […]
Ivo Banac : Separating History from Myth: An Interview (II)
LIFSCHULTZ: While we are on the subject of multinational states, would you elaborate a little on your argument in The National Question in Yugoslavia that democracy and Yugoslav “unitarism” were incompatible phenomena. In other multinational […]
Keith Doubt : Solipsism Narrated Magnanimously: Reflections on Death and the Dervish
“Malodušnost” is the Serbo-Croatian word that Henry Cooper uses to describe the subject of Meša Selimović’s novel, Death and the Dervish in his preface to the novel. Faintheartedness and moral cowardice translate the Serbo-Croatian word […]
Mak Dizdar : Vertical and Horizontal
How shall we bury the screams deeply in the ground of oblivion So they do not reach us on these arduous paths How shall we place every cherished word and smile in these tight bags […]