Peripheral Thrones: Negotiating Borders in Contemporary Croatian Women’s Prose
Peripheral Thrones: Negotiating Borders in Contemporary Croatian Women’s Prose

Summary/Abstract: This article is a brief introspection into special negotiations on the issue of border/s applied to the composite realm of language, gender, and politics in the works of two Croatian women writers, Slavenka Drakulić and Dubravka Ugrešić, who depict the first transitional years from communism to post-communism and the effects of the war in Yugoslavia. Drakulić’s Café Europa: Life After Communism (1996) and Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (1996) feature an array of unconventional histories, exiles stories, memories and vernacular constructions of perimeters, demarcations, margins, liminalities, boundaries, as well as their multiple deconstructions within the (more or less fictive) world their “middle worlder” narrators inhabit.

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