Nacionalna imaginacija kod Ive Andrića i Salmana Rushdieja: komparativna analiza romana Na Drini ćuprija i Djeca ponoći Ivona Zebić, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split 2016. Ovaj diplomski rad promatra fenomen nacionalne imaginacije, odnosno zamišljanja nacionalne pripadnosti, u romanima Na Drini ćuprija i Djeca ponoći autorâ Ive Andrića i Salmana Rushdieja. Naciju ovdje tumačimo kao imaginarnu zajednicu, odnosno kao društveno-naratološki konstrukt, a same tekstove kao one koji tu činjenicu i oslikavaju, te koji tematsko-naratološkim tehnikama svoje postkolonijalne domovine oslikavaju kao hibridne, a kulturu kao anti-esencijalističku i stvorenu pri kontaktu s drugim. S obzirom na to da se rad prema Andrićevu tekstu odnosi kao prema postkolonijalnom, postavljaju se i pitanja nešto kulturološki šira od same teme, a koja konačno omogućuju i postavljanje novih paradigmi čitanja gotovo svih Andrićevih tekstova.

National Imagination in the Works of Ivo Andrić and Salman Rushdie: a Comparative Analysis of The Bridge on the Drina and Midnight's Children Ivona Zebić, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Split 2016. This thesis examines national imagination, i.e. the process of imagining national belonging in Ivo Andrić’s The Bridge on the Drina and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. The concept of nation is here understood as an imagined community, i.e. as a socio-narratological construct. These two literary texts are therefore examined as built on such an understanding, or, in other words, as those that, through their thematic and narratological elements, portray hybridity of their postcolonial homelands and anti-essentialism of cultures which are formed with and through the Other. Also, due to the fact that this thesis examines The Bridge on the Drina as an example of postcolonial literature, the thesis raises broader socio-narratological questions, which consequently enable the proposal of a new reading paradigm that may be applied to the majority of Andrić’s literary works.