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

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Matijevic, Tijana <p>Tijana Matijevic, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Deutschland</p>, Author.

Series:

Lettre (Transcript (Firm))

Lettre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

(Post-)Yugoslavia.

Post-Yugoslav Literature.

Feminism.

Women's Writing.

Literature.

Gender.

Culture.

Slavic Studies.

Gender Studies.

Cultural History.

Literary Studies.

Local Subjects:

(Post-)Yugoslavia.

Post-Yugoslav Literature.

Feminism.

Women's Writing.

Literature.

Gender.

Culture.

Slavic Studies.

Gender Studies.

Cultural History.

Literary Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Matijevic, From post-Yugoslavia to Female Continent A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

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.

»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.«

»A book full of detailed descriptions and analyses that are highly relevant to how post-Yugoslavia deals with the future. An insightful read for people who are not interested in easy and ready-made answers.«

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 I Introduction: On Post-Yugoslavia and the Female Continent 7 II Women's Writing and Critical Nostalgia: On Ildiko Lovas' Fiction 35 III Post-Yugoslav Écriture Féminine 65 IV The Other Writing: Atonement and Female Authorship in Snezana Andrejevi's and Luka Bekavac's Fiction 117 V What to Do With the Past? Feminist Literary Historiographies I: Olja Savievi Ivanevi's Adio, kauboju 151 VI What to Do With the Past? Feminist Literary Historiographies II: Slobodan Tisma's Bernardijeva soba 189 VII Conclusions. Inherited Possibility, Or: Choosing The Optimal Variant 251 Bibliography 257

Notes:

Doctoral Thesis Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 2018

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783839452097

3839452090

OCLC:

1202466690