Успостављање равнотеже: матрифокалне теме у поезији Тање Ступар-Трифуновић и Александре Чворовић
Striking a Balance: Matrifocal Themes in the Poetry of Tanja Stupar Trifunović and Aleksandra Čvorović

Summary/Abstract: Exploring the visibilities and preoccupations of literary texts about mothers and daughters, Nan Bauer Maglin (1980) identifies a number of interconnected themes that appear throughout matrilineal and matrifocal narratives. The themes are generally related to women authors’ awareness of their belonging to a female genealogy and their insights into the subversive strengths of marginal traditions that need to be restored and preserved. They also focus on the immediate motherlinesby outlining the family relations and creating spaces of personalised matrilineal heritages that are at the same time affirmatory and challenging. Maglin’s ideas are contextualised and further expanded in the influential theoretical and critical studies by authors such as Davidson and Broner (1980), Hirsch (1989), and Giorgio(2002), who mostly concentrate on the Anglo-American and Western European mother-daughter narratives. Drawing on their perspectives on mother-daughter relationships, along with the theoretical groundwork established by Cixous’s and Kristeva’s definitions of the writing voice coming from the maternal and semiotic spaces, and a more recent publication on textual mothers and maternal texts by Podnieks and O’Reilly (2010), this paper has embarked on presenting two contemporary female poetic voices from Southeast Europe and their own representations of bonds between mothers and daughters in the post-war society.

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