ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the analysis of the small body of published narratives of adolescents born of wartime rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I offer a more nuanced understanding of youth culture in Bosnia and argue that the constructively reimagined identification matrix in the narratives of children born of wartime rape serves not only as a way to explain the past and examine the present, but as a potential discursive blueprint for a political and cultural future for Bosnia and Herzegovina where national identity can be articulated through an alternative set of values beyond ethnic affiliations and based on common civic interests.
