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Poetičke (ne)određenosti bosanskohercegovačkog ženskog romana
Poetic (Un)Specifics of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Female Novel

Author(s): Azra Verlašević
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Cultural history, Novel, Bosnian Literature
Published by: Pedagoški fakultet Univerziteta u Bihaću
Keywords: l'écriture féminine; identity; others;

Summary/Abstract: In the (post) communistic society was born, our female novelistic voice cannot avoid its politicization and ideological speech, so it produces women’s text that reflects basic social dichotomies of their cultural context and asks the ontological similarity of two genres, autobiography and the novel. It is legitimate to consider it sequence and at the same time, despite to the inherited literary matrix, and to acknowledge its poetic contribution which relieves some kind of constitutive surplus that faces us with uncontested view that women’s writing brings into our tradition of novel - the concept of difference. It is actually the beginning of women’s tradition that unites the persistence of tensions in our own ambivalence and streaming to establish a women’s common sense about women, about her creativity, the language that speaks about her...

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 39-46
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bosnian