Kosara, žena koje nema: Pozicija žene u Dizdarevom Kamenom spavaču
Kosara, a Woman Who is Not Here: Position of a Woman in Dizdar’s Stone Sleeper

Author(s): Naida Mujkić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bosnian Literature
Published by: BZK "Preporod" Brčko distrikt Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Masculine centrality; woman; Metaphysics; love; history;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to deconstruct, from feminist viewpoint, masculine centrality and to enlighten the position of a woman in Mak Dizdar’s collection of poems, Stone Sleeper. The awaken voices of Bosnian sleepers are male. The collection comprises poems that in different ways relate to reality, dreams and death of husbands, fathers and sons, who are associated with the stećak stones, and therefore are enliven as the voices of carvers, deacons, and the “owners” of stećak stones”, while a woman is the invisible historical subject. Neither traditional, essentialisticly postulated criticism nor recent poststructuralist and deconstructive oriented readings have paid attention to this aspect of Dizdar’s poetry.

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