Women Writing in Red Ink: Women’s Writing and Socio-political Change in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia
Women Writing in Red Ink: Women’s Writing and Socio-political Change in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia

Author(s): Damir Arsenijević, Ajla Demiragić, Jelena Petrović
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Keywords: WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE BALKANS; WOMEN’S WRITING AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; WOMEN’S WRITING AND CROATIA; WOMEN’S WRITING AND SERBIA; WOMEN’S WRITING & SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Summary/Abstract: THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE WAYS IN WHICH SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE BALKANS SINCE THE LATE 1980S HAS AFFECTED WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE THREE COUNTRIES OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, CROATIA AND SERBIA. IT AIMS TO OUTLINE NEGOTIATIONS OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN WOMEN’S WRITING AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO RECENT THEORETICAL DEBATES ABOUT THIS WRITING IN THE REGION. THE DISCUSSION MOVES FROM THE WAYS IN WHICH WOMEN’S DISCOURSE OF THE 1990S, IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL CHANGE, WAS AB/USED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES, TOWARDS PROPOSITIONS AS TO HOW IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE TO UNLOCK THE EMANCIPATORY POLITICAL POTENTIAL IN WOMEN’S LITERATURE. THIS IS ANALYSED THROUGH A MINI CASE-STUDY LOOKING AT CONTEMPORARY POETRY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.

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