Srpska književnost dvadesetog veka ili začarani krug patrijarhata
Serbian Literature in the Twentieth Century or the Circulus Vitiosus of Patriarchy

Summary/Abstract: Analyzing the representative works of three perhaps most important authors of different poetic paradigms in 20th century Serbian literature, Borislav Stanković, Ivo Andrić and Danilo Kiš, from the perspective of feminist and gender theory, the author explores how Serbian literature related to the patriarchy as a dominant cultural model. This paper examines the points of continuity and discontinuity that Serbian literature reached regarding the patriarchal tradition of the Serbian society and culture. It focuses on the analysis of Danilo Kiš’s central piece Family Circus -from the perspective of the masculinity theory. Investigating the position that Kiš’s prose trilogy takes in relation to patriarchy, it particularly emphasizes the new sociocultural phenomena of the so-called masculinity crisis that developed within the masculinity theory.

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