РОДНИ АСПЕКТИ УСМЕНЕ ТУЖБАЛИЦЕ
GENDER ASPECTS OF THE ORAL LAMENT

Summary/Abstract: The paper starts from the assumption that in the oral laments that were originally created within the patriarchal culture, the emphasized value difference between male and female is articulated, as an important aspect of the meaning and the reflex of religious and sociocultural representations of the patriarchal community. From this standpoint,the position of the female who laments, as the main and almost exclusive creator and transmitter of these poems, is summarily considered. We have also considered laments for women, as well as the attitude towards the female relatives of the deceased (mother, sister, widow, daughter) in laments. From the gender point of view, the formation of space in the oral lament was also considered. The ma­le spa­ce in these poems is primarily built as a grave space, a battlefield / death space, and the life paths of the deceased. The space of the house itself, even the whole world of the living, where women, children, elderly parents and surviving relatives still reside, due to the absence of a man comes close to the coldness, emptiness, darkness and the non-living of a grave – the ”unusual homes”.

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