Irena Vrkljan U svijetu ladica: O recepciji opusa
Irena Vrkljan In the World of Drawers: About the Reception of the Oeuvre

Summary/Abstract: The paper indicates general problems in the reception of écriture féminine (feminine writing, also often referred to as ”women’s writing”) in the Croatian science of literature during the period between 1983, when the thematic volume of the journal Republika was published, and the present day. It critically addresses its use in the reception of Irena Vrkljan’s autobiographic fiction, which is regarded as its paradigm in the contemporary Croatian literature. The analysis of the editions of the author’s works, literary criticism and histories of modern Croatian literature shows that the attribution of the term feminine writing to Irena Vrkljan’s fiction misinterpreted the concept while leaving the author’s earlier poetry aside. Working from the theoretical implications of écriture féminine and the author’s oeuvre, the paper considers the relation between feminine writing and the continuity between the author’s fiction and poetry as the basis of a critical approach to the main problems of former reception, as well as starting points for new interpretations of the author’s works.

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