Imperativ pamćenja loma dominantnog književnog kanona – prva istraživačica bosanskohercegovačkog ženskog pjesništva Ajša Džemila Zahirović
The Imperative to remember the Break with the Dominant Literary Canon – Ajša Džemila Zahirović, The First Scholar of Women’s Poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: This article takes as its starting point the task of remembering and re-evaluating the work of the recently deceased poet and researcher Ajša Džemila Zahirović. In an attempt to uncover and analyze the reasons why her work and the author have been forgotten, this paper seeks to examine the context in which women create and in which their work is valued. This includes the creation of a theoretical-critical framework that is reflected in the combination of feminist literary criticism and gynocriticism, with the aim to provide an adequate response to the problem of the exclusion of women from the dominant literary history and canon. Although the main focus here is on interpreting the editorial practices of the first Bosnian anthology of women’s poetry Od stiha do pjesme: Poezija žena Bosne i Hercegovine [From verse to poem: Poetry of women of Bosnia and Herzegovina] (1985), in addition the paper will identify the method of establishing a subgenre of an anthology of women’s poetry capable of giving voice to women and intervening in the dominant field of knowledge. The work is based on retrieving forgotten women writers from history, such as Zahirović. Additionally, the idea of this paper is to articulate the history of women’s writing. The aim is also to reposition both the researcher and her anthology within the spaces of the reconstruction of the female literary tradition and the imperative of memory. The entire analysis is based on a careful examination of the status of the writer and anthologist, that is, demonstrating and affirming her importance.

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