Multimediality and Intermediality in Zuko Džumhur's Literary Work: Relationship between Drawings and Text

Abstract

Zuko Džumhur's literary work has an impressive multimedial and intermedial character, not only his travelogues, but generally the entire body of his creative work. This paper intends to precisely examine the nature of his work, where the emergence of intermediality, i.e. the relationship between drawings and text, can be considered as an additional thematisation. It would be difficult to conclude whether the highly hybrid and very complex nature of the multimedial and intermedial nature of Zuko Džumhur's work stem from the poetics of Modernism. Especially when it comes to the Avant-garde heritage, which, as well as Modernism, is very close to him, or the influence of remarkable earlier travelogues, which also link the drawing to a text like e.g. Evliya Celebi etc. However, it is certain that the reasons behind his unique discourse can also be found in the fact that Zuko Džumhur, by his nature, was a very multidimensional person of many preferences, talents, professions and interests. This paper could not exhaust all the aspects of this extremely complex topic, but did try to draw attention to the unique discourse, role and place of Zuko Džumhur's work as one of the most significant Bosniak and Bosnian-Herzegovinian travel writers, and beyond, with a significant place in the wider South Slavic literary context too.