From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent: A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature

✍ Scribed by Tijana Matijevic

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Women's writing from the former/post-Yugoslavia recollects but also produces the links among the post-Yugoslav present and the Yugoslav past - as either those bygone Yugoslav days or the recent war history. Along with a gynocritical intervention that draws attention to an uninterrupted marginalization of women authors, but also structurally confined female narrators and protagonists, Tijana Matijevic conceptualizes the post-Yugoslav literary field, i.e. the contemporary literary production from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. Along this quest to find the Female Continent, post-Yugoslavia has been demarcated and liberated by feminist writing as collective space-building.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
I Introduction: On Post-Yugoslavia and the Female Continent
II Women’s Writing and Critical Nostalgia: On Ildiko Lovas’ Fiction
III Post-Yugoslav Écriture Féminine
IV The Other Writing: Atonement and Female Authorship in Snežana Andrejević’s and Luka Bekavac’s Fiction
V What to Do With the Past? Feminist Literary Historiographies I: Olja Savičević Ivančević’s Adio, kauboju
VI What to Do With the Past? Feminist Literary Historiographies II: Slobodan Tišma’s Bernardijeva soba
VII Conclusions. Inherited Possibility, Or: Choosing The Optimal Variant
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