DRAGOJLA, IVANA, MANI – SUBVERZIJA KAO DIJALOG?
DRAGOJLA, IVANA, MANI – SUBVERSION AS DIALOGUE?

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the diaries of two Croatian authors, Dragojla Jarnević(1812 – 1875) and Ivana Brlić Mažuranić (1874 –1938), and Mani Gotovac’s autobiographic prose I Miss you in Spring, in Autumn, in Summer and in Winter. The poetic characteristics of said literary works follow the matrix of female literature,frequently marked by a traumatic experience. Trauma is manifested by the self-destructive tendencies of the literary subject presented in two ways: by the specific use of linguistic elements and/or, at the level of content, through the authors`explicit narrative about their self-destructive tendencies. These tendencies were motivated by the authors` inability to establish a satisfactory relationship with the existing societal paradigms – symbolically denominated as authorities in this paper. This predominantly subversive attitude towards authorities, which results in the self-destructive tendencies of the literary subject, is particularly discernible in Jarnević and Brlić Mažuranić. These authors also exhibit an inversely reciprocal relationship between their self-destructive tendencies and their acknowledgment of the metaphysical domain as a form of authority. Gotovac`s attitude towards the metaphysical domain is different than that of Jarnević and Brlić Mažuranić; it is a sort of “experience of faith through infidelity” (Šimundža). The aim of this paper is: 1) to explore different manifestations of self-destructive tendencies in literary subjects, 2)to explore the relationship between self-destructive tendencies and the metaphysical domain, and 3) to enable the possibility of a different interpretation of the subversive element of female literature by tackling the issue of whether a subversive attitude towards authorities may be perceived as a latent tendency towards opening a dialogue with them.

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