RELIGIOUS POETRY OF THE BOSNIAC POETS "OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM" (2)

Abstract

The poets of the so-called "internal exile" represent a special kind of poets within the 20'" century Bosniac poetry. The "internal exile" is the condition in which poets in socialists countries find themselves when they are neither imprisoned nor is their work banned by some official document, but who, nevertheless, cannot publish their works due to some "tacit agreement" between the state and the cultural officials. Those are the writers "blacklisted by the Communists", sentenced by the system to isolation for various "sins" they have committed against it (the system). Their isolation is not absolute, they sometimes, albeit very rarely, get to publish some of their works. Such works are mostly not real literature (translations, historical documents and detectives sto1ies published under pseudonyms). The most famous such poets are: Enver Čolaković, Salih Alić, Refad Kadić, Hanumica Zekić. In a certain way, dming the communist time, the Islamic Community served as a refuge for those writers. A number of newspapers, magazines, including all publishing activity, have been active under the wing ofthe Islamic Community, and this gave structure to something we can generally dub -the perception of the Islamic thought and spirituality here. Those publications made a significant contribution to the development ofthe oriental studies here, as well as, the complete spectrum of specialized Islamic disciplines and inter-religious dialogue. As far as our subject is concerned-the Islamic spirituality in the contemporary poetry-summary results are scarce. There are many reasons behind this. The first and the most important one is the abstinence of the most Bosniac poets (and of the entire intelligentsia) from cooperating with those publications. We are not exaggerating when we say that the ones who "dared" to cooperate, were stigmatized and outcast by the public. However, we can see that a number of outstanding literal individuals emerged (or survived) under the wing of the Islamic Community: Alija Nametak, Džemaludin Latić, Hadžem Hajdarević, Hanumica Zekić, Ejub Todoravac, Aziz Kadribegović, Selim Jelovac. Those poets published in the following publications of the Islamic Community: "Glasnik" (Herald), "Islamska misao" (Islamic Thought), "Preporod" (Renaissance), "Takvim", "Zemzem" and the Publishing House "El-Kalem".