NARRATIVE OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE NOVELS FROM NOWHERE TO NOWHERE, MORE BEAUTIFUL ENDING AND SANDALS BY BEKIM SEJRANOVIĆ

Abstract

This paper discusses the narrative of cultural difference and identity constructions in the novels From Nowhere to Nowhere, More Beautiful Ending and Sandals by Bekim Sejranović. The starting point was that in Bekim Sejranović's novels, a narrative of cultural difference and cultural hybridity is formed as a consequence of forced exile, the nomadism of the narrative subject, so that within such a story identities are presented as unplaced "from nowhere to nowhere". Recognizing the narrative of cultural difference that illuminates individual destinies, the non/unity of the self as well as the collectivity, was key to the analysis of identity constructions in Sejranović's novels. Therefore, the paper explores all the ways in which the narrative of cultural difference constructed identities in the narrative text, and referring to the concept “in-between” space by Homi Bhabha.

The study of the manner of constructing identity in Bekim Sejranović's novels was based on poststructuralist theses on identity, and postcolonial criticism helped to explore the narrative of cultural difference.