Early Bosnian-Herzegovinian Periodicals and Trauma of Encounter of the Oriental and European Worlds: Example of the World Image in “Bosna” and “Sarajevski Cvjetnik”

The paper aims to briefly synthesize and value conditions of the establishment and early development period of printing, publishing and journalistic activities in the Ottoman Bosnia during the last decades of Ottoman government, following the understanding of complicated conditions of these, in the context of 19th century in Europe, conditions already belated and generallyknown practices, from the perspective of complex interrelation between the departing Ottoman and arriving Austro-Hungarian Empire. In this connection, early Bosnian-Herzegovinian periodicals appear as a space of clashing and subtle interrelating of the two world images – Oriental and European ones, while the first Bosnian-Herzegovinian journals function as representative sources for studying the image of Bosnia on the lasting of the Oriental and European worlds. The processes mentioned above are recognized and interpreted with the support of examples of the two most important journals from the beginnings of the establishment of printing, publishing and journalistic activities in Bosnia-Herzegovina – “Bosna” as an official Bosnian Vilayet’s and the longest local Ottoman journal, but also “Sarajevski cvjetnik” as the first, conditionally speaking, private Bosnian-Herzegovinian journal – all that in the perspective of recognizing influences of the two civilizations and two political, social, religious, language and writing systems and other relevant factors. All the above mentioned is supported with the fact that first Bosnian-Herzegovinian journals, along with literary texts, have preserved the trauma of the encounter of the Oriental and European worlds in Bosnia from forgetting, forwarding with their writings important dilemmas of Bosnian people about choosing the The Right Path to our contemporaneity and representing a kind of “paradigm of Bosnia” in this wayDepartment of Comparative Literature and Librarianship. University of Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina476