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142 LITERATÛRZINÂTNE, FOLKLORISTIKA, MÂKSLA
ages of the ethnic, national or cultural identities. Paradoxically or not, the main characteristic
of the end of the 20th century becomes the essential examination of the identity,
provokes by the others, but also confronts with the process of deleting the identity
of the others like an act of violent elimination and radical insisting of one’s identification.
That usually leads to the result of violent resolving the life with dead or
with war. According to Prof. Rada Ivecovic, it is a strong tendency of bordering the
territories and creating the identity by that lend. 8 In that context, we are witnesses of
a total disappearing of any reflection of the Other and the whole effort is concentrates
on the distinguish oneself. By that way we touch the bottom of the life, the
death, the violence, and we can see the practicing of violence that characterized most
of the histories of the nations that live in the Mediterranean world.
If in the center of our thinking we emphasize the idea of establishing the identity,
we have to speak about the national, ethnic or cultural identity, but usually about the
identity through its reflection in the eyes of the others. Identity always asks for the
territory, it establishes its imaginary borders, but he/she can insist to master the history
or the time, and at least the universal, the humanity. All the territories on which
insists one’s identity couldn’t be real, they have to exists as an imaginary land of
human living, and after that as a real living, for example our living on the territory of
the Mediterranean world of riche and worth.
The identity nests through the story and images, but it usually need the others to
listen and accept these images, to react and confirm the existence. The story, also
means developing the dialogue through the borders between the territory of the “I”
and the existence of others in its world. I pretend to eliminate the established histories
and to accept the representations of the individual imaginary world of identifying
through the story. All histories in the past in this Mediterranean world insisted on its
validity and on its true. I want to point out to the “other”, sophisticated stories, which
are not representative for a country, or material world, but are usually straitened in its
borders. Narration in my essay is some kind of an effort to make a revival of an individual
explanation as a story, which will be able to save the past and to integrate the
differences, and not recognized aspects of individuality in a space of the text as an
example of a dialogue with the thoughts of many Others. It needs its identification by
the others. That is a narrative as a Utopia in which the time and space are compressing
by texturing the story. By that way I couldn’t accept the long tradition of the
“Balkans specialties” that wanted to promote the validity of their individual perspective
of the events by deleting the history of the others.
First of all, as a region, Balkan is traditionally bordered/divided from the other
parts of Europe as a lagging region, although it belongs to the continent although, the
roots of the European civilization were planted here, this part was rather separated
than integrated in the Europe.
Balkans were traditionally characterized as an ethos: independent, proud, courageous
and honor. The concept of “balkanization” is derived from the phenomenon of
“kleinestaat”, according to Erik Hobsbaum. By analyzing the etymology of this term,
we can find the same explications. The verb „balkaniser” means “national fragmentation”
as it is pointed out with the situation in the Balkan region” after the First World
War. „Balkanisieren” signifies the process of fragmentation of the state by making a