„Tijelo pamćenja je pčela koja me bode.“ Emancipatorne prakse ženskog pisma 80-ih

• Authors: Marina Protrka Štimec , Mirela Dakić

Title variants

EN

“The body of recollection is a bee which stings me.” Emancipatory practices of women’s writing in Croatian literature of the 1980’s

• Languages of publication: HR

Abstracts

EN

The book of essays Smrtni grijesi feminizma (The Deadly Sins of Feminism), written by Slavenka Drakulić, and Irena Vrkljan’s novel Svila, škare (The Silk, the Shears), both published in 1984, became the samples of feminist activism and the poetics of l’écriture féminine in Croatian literature. Considering their generic aspects and their narrative strategies focused on revealing the conflict between public/historical/political and personal/everyday/trivial, in our paper we will discuss Vrkljan’s novel as outstanding example of the emancipatory changes in the cultural field of the 1980’s. “Trivial as political” in Slavenka Drakulić’s writing, articulated through Irena Vrkljan’s autobiographical narrative, incites the emancipatory power of l’écriture féminine that simultaneously reflects the Other in itself, produces its own difference and writes without inscribing itself. This type of women’s writing, as previously defined by Hélène Cixous, is presented in Irena Vrkljan’s text as writing its own life that is “always in-between” and that undermines declared democratic values as much as the politics of literature, as understood by Jacques Rancière. Revealing discordances between poetic and social hierarchies, women’s writing makes changes in the partition of the visible and the sayable, in the intertwining of being and writing, body and words.

Keywords

EN

The Deadly Sins of Feminism; Slavenka Drakulić; The Silk; the Shears; Irena Vrkljan; women’s writing; politics of literature

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 16
• Pages: 243-255

Dates

published

2019-08-14

Contributors

author

Marina Protrka Štimec

• Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3764-5625

author

Mirela Dakić

• Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1117-2145

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pss.2019.16.14