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

Tijana Matijevic

Published by transcript Verlag 2020

From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent

A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature

Tijana Matijevic

In the series Lettre

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839452097

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About this book

This study of contemporary literature from the former Yugoslavia (Post-Yugoslavia) follows the ways in which the feminist writing of gender, body, sexuality, and social and cultural hierarchies brings to light the past of socialist Yugoslavia, its cultural and literary itineraries and its dissolution in the Yugoslav wars. The analysis also focuses on the particularities of different feminist writings, together with their picturing of possible futures. The title of the book suggests an attempt to interpret post-Yugoslav literature as feminist writing, but also a process of conceptualizing a post-Yugoslav literary field, in this study represented by contemporary fiction from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.

Author / Editor information

Tijana Matijevic (PhD), is independent researcher currently teaching post-Yugoslav literature, culture, and languages at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Her research focuses on the feminist writing and the continuities between the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literatures.

Reviews

»Ein Buch voller detaillierter Beschreibungen und Analysen, welche von hoher Relevanz für den Umgang Post-Jugoslawiens mit der Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft sind. Eine aufschlussreiche Lektüre für Menschen, denen es nicht um leichte und vorgefertigte Antworten geht.«
Jasen Philipps, www.kritisch-lesen.de, 13.04.2021

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
I Introduction: On Post-Yugoslavia and the Female Continent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
II Women’s Writing and Critical Nostalgia: On Ildiko Lovas’ Fiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
III Post-Yugoslav Écriture Féminine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
IV The Other Writing: Atonement and Female Authorship in Snežana Andrejević’s and Luka Bekavac’s Fiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
V What to Do With the Past? Feminist Literary Historiographies I: Olja Savičević Ivančević’s Adio, kauboju Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
VI What to Do With the Past? Feminist Literary Historiographies II: Slobodan Tišma’s Bernardijeva soba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
VII Conclusions. Inherited Possibility, Or: Choosing The Optimal Variant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Keywords: Post-Yugoslav Literature; Feminism; Women's Writing; Literature; Gender; Culture; Slavic Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural History; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: October 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839452097