De-centered Pluralism of Methods: Feminist Literary Criticism in Serbia
De-centered Pluralism of Methods: Feminist Literary Criticism in Serbia

Author(s): Biljana Dojčinović
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Summary/Abstract: THE TEXT PRESENTS CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM IN SERBIA, ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT SINCE THE EIGHTIES, ALL THE WAY TO THE 21ST CENTURY. THE THESIS IS THAT FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM HAS DEVELOPED, WITHIN A BROADER CONCEPT OF FEMINIST THEORY, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF WESTERN FEMINIST THOUGHT, BUT THAT IT HAS NOT FOLLOWED STRICTLY ITS PHASES AND MODES. THE FIRST PHASE WAS MARKED BY THE STRONGER INFLUENCE OF THE CONCEPT OF L'ECRITURE FEMININE, WHILE THE SECOND ONE WAS BASED ON THE NOTION OF GENDER. IN ADDITION TO THE SURVEY OF SOME FOUNDING TEXTS, THE TEXT FOCUSES ON THE WOMEN CRITICS WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING IN THE FIELD, THEIR BACKGROUNDS AND THEORETICAL POSITIONS, IN ORDER TO PRESENT THE VARIETY OF METHODS AND DISCIPLINARY FIELDS INVOLVED IN LITERARY CRITICISM IN SERBIAN LANGUAGE.

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