FEMINISTICKÝ DISKURZ V DRAMATICKEJ TVORBE JANY BODNÁROVEJ

• Authors: Nagyová Nora

Title variants

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Feminist discourse in the dramatic works of Jana Bodnárová

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on the dramatic work of the Slovak writer Jana Bodnárová (b. 1950) in the intersections of feminist tendencies and “women’s writing” as conceptualised by Hélène Cixous in her manifesto The Laugh of the Medusa (1976). The paper analyses the plays that J. Bodnárová wrote after 1989. Thematically, these concentrate mainly on violence and cruelty against women in various forms. J. Bodnárová depicts women’s experience in relation to the theme of physicality. She interprets the female body as lived and experienced, capable of constantly reshaping its boundaries and unmasking inner movements. In Bodnárová’s texts, the body is a constructive tool through which the author can approach the misogynistic thinking that encloses women in their bodies. In the context of the phenomenon of “women’s writing,” the theme of empowering women’s “voice” on the basis of artistic creation comes to the fore. Affinities are present with Hélène Cixous’s drama Portrait de Dora (1976, second revised edition 1986) which focuses on the motif of the forms of sexual abuse and trauma women experience that are the results of society’s patriarchal character.

Keywords

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JANA BODNÁROVÁ; SLOVAK DRAMA; FEMINISM; WOMEN’S WRITING

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 442 – 457

Contributors

author

Nagyová Nora

• Divadelná fakulta, Vysoká škola múzických umení, Svoradova 4, Bratislava 813 01, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6111-0567

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2023.70.4.7