POLYPHONY IN THE NOVEL WATCHES IN MOTHER'S ROOM
BY WRITER TANJA STUPAR TRIFUNOVIĆ Cover Image

POLIFONIJA U ROMANU SATOVI U MAJČINOJ SOBI TANJE STUPAR TRIFUNOVIĆ
POLYPHONY IN THE NOVEL WATCHES IN MOTHER'S ROOM BY WRITER TANJA STUPAR TRIFUNOVIĆ

Author(s): Fatima Bećarević
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Zenici
Keywords: female letter; body; mother; gender; polyphony;

Summary/Abstract: The revision of roles and positions in contemporary Bosnian society is a topic that is often written in the works of writers who, on the example of female characters, represent models based on which narrative identities arise.The novel "Watches in Mother's Room" written byTanja Stupar Trifunović is a polyphonic narration in which is the voices of the mother - writers, daughters, grandchildren, Ana as the embodiment of all women and skillfully embedded women's characters from world literature are interwoven with narrative discourse to speak from their own position, opens up multiple possibilities of interpretation and analysis in which it reveals cultural models representing women in Bosnian literary and cultural space.The multiplicity of distinctive features that characterize the vertical lines of narrative identities of individuals in the novel "Watches in Mother's Room" reveals a network of emotions that overwhelm guilt, love, nostalgia, mistrust and desire as key feelings that affect the building of female figure identities. Writing a fictitious story that borders on reality and becomes a generally recognizable call to re-examine the position of women in the patriarchal society, as well as its relationship to the inner, intimate world that is often overlapped by reality and fiction, dream and reality. That is why the aim of this paper is to examine the cultural and social discursive order within which existed female characters represented in the novel, and by interpreting and analyzing the strategy of entering patriarchal discourse into women's bodies exposed to various misgenic and exclusionary practices.

  • Issue Year: 1/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 429-435
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bosnian