Na Drini Ćuprija By Ivo Andrić

Ottoman occupation of Bosnian territory Child tribute Great floods of late 17 th Century Serbian Revolt of early 1870s Austro-Hungarian occupation Period of modernization New people groups Change in the place of women Freer movement of Serbs and Jews Bosnian annexation from Austria-Hungary The Balkan Wars and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Novel of historical-fiction First published in 1945 in Belgrade, Yugoslava Translated and published in English in winner of he Nobel Prize in Literature Ivo Andrić Catholic, Croatian born in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1892 Raised by his mother’s family in Višegrad Active in the youth nationalist movement prior to World War I

Constructed 1566 – 1571 Built by Grand Vezir Mehmed Pasha Sokolli from Sokolovići – a Christian Serb that became a Muslim Merged East and West Symbolized identity of Višegrad Destroyed 1914

Overarching concepts Identity Violence Alterity Specific Elements Ethnicity Religion Language Nationalism

The bridge Unchanging and undefeatable aspect of Višegrad life Eternal Link between east and west; and self and the other Marker of divide between people groups Ceding of Bosnia to Austria-Hungary by the Ottomans Turkish warning to Bosnians that their time will come Place of violence – impaling, beheading, and mounting of heads Paralysis of bridge as link between east and west Destruction of bridge equated to abandonment by God

Change under Austro-Hungarian rule Old vs. new as parallel of self vs. other Han becomes barracks – connection to building of bridge and Mahmed Pasha Sokolli Freer movement of Serbs, Jews, and women Culture and identity remain on the kapia – traditions hold in the midst of change – Turkish times forgotten, but customs and dress remained Merging with the other – change of identity through customs and dress Bridge seen as invulnerable in the midst of change

Threat of violence Impaling Torture of ‘the other’ by ‘the other’ Merdjan the Gipsy Radislav Heraci of Unište Radislav as martyr Beheading Decapitation of Serbs Displaying of heads on the kapia Banditry Hanging and Prosecution of the Serbs

THE RULERSTHE RULED Ottoman Turk – Muslim Austro-Hungarian Visitors Ethnic groups Czechs Poles Croats Hungarians Austrians Religion – Catholicism Language -- German Bosnian-Serb Orthodox Christian Nationalist movement Jew Sephardi – Spain Ashkenazi – Galicia Language – Judeo- Spanish Gipsy – ‘godless’ (56)

Mehmed Pasha Sokolli – Serb/Turk Abidaga – Turk Alihodja Mutevelic -- Turk Opposed to violence Unchanged through periods of violence, peace, and change Living through suffering, dead, waiting to be buried Pop Nikola – Serb Respect without distinction of faith “as close as a priest and a hodja ” (129) Relationship with Mula Ibrahim Lotte – Jew