%0 Journal Article
%T Poszukiwanie tożsamości wspólnotowej a samoidentyfi kacja etniczna mieszkańców Bośni i Hercegowiny w świetle literatury
%A Moroz-Grzelak, Lilla
%J Studia Środkowoeuropejskie i Bałkanistyczne
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/2543733XSSB.17.030.8328
%N Tom XXVI
%P 151-162
%K tożsamość etniczna, tożsamość narodowa, Bośnia i Hercegowina, Emir Kusturica, Miljenko Jergović
%@ 2451-4993
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/ssb/artykul/poszukiwanie-tozsamosci-wspolnotowej-a-samoidentyfi-kacja-etniczna-mieszkancow-bosni-i-hercegowiny-w-swietle-literatury
%X 
	The article, based on the autobiographical texts of the writer Milenko Jergovic and director Emir Kusturica, shows issues of cultural self-identification with which artists born in Sarajevo met after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The consequence of these events was the necessity of seeking their own identity in new environments and new places (Croatia, Serbia).

	To better illustrate the problems of determining Jergovic’s and Kusturica’s own identity, there are references not only to the time of Tito’s Yugoslavia, when the doctrine of brotherhood and unity was set upon all citizens, along with the state atheism, but also to the situation in the country after the conclusion of the Dayton agreement. This background led to the numerous problems of a multicultural state that prevented the full stabilization of the country, and made it impossible to form a common, national identity. The analysis of selected autobiographical motifs allowed a complex picture of Bosnia and Herzegovina – the state, which is facing many seemingly unsolvable problems to be presented. It generates not only a multi-ethnic society with different religious traditions, like Catholicism for Croats and Orthodox Church for Serbs, but in the same time the lack of agreement in the symbolic sphere, relating to the state symbols, which