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

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• VerfasserIn: Matijevic, Tijana,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Lettre
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Bibliography