Stupajući u dijalog s poljem feminističke postklasične naratologije i pristupajući književnim reprezentacijama djevojaka kao jednome od mjesta proizvodnje djevojaštva, koje se shvaća kao kategorija ...koja ne postoji neovisno o konkretnim diskurzivnim artikulacijama, a ne kao odraz postojane biološke ili društvene kategorije, ovim radom, koji je posvećen analizi romana Alma Josipa Barkovića, nastojimo pridonijeti raspravi o odnosu roda i pripovijedanja te pokazati kako se problem roda ne smije promatrati u izolaciji, odnosno kako bi zanemariti širi društveno-kulturni kontekst pri razmatranju jugoslavenskoga djevojačkog romana značilo zanemariti značaj jugoslavenskoga socijalističkog konteksta i Barkovićevu romanu olako pripisati feministički impuls. Kraća rasprava o teorijskome i društveno-kulturnome kontekstu s kojim ovaj rad stupa u dijalog uzima se kao poticaj za analizu romana koja se usredotočuje na pripovjedno oblikovanje djevojaštva i figure djevojke kako bi se pokazalo da, uzmemo li u obzir kontekst u kojemu taj roman nastaje i njegov daljnji život u kulturnome polju, stječemo dvojaku prednost: dok s jedne strane možemo obogatiti svoje čitanje konkretnih kulturnih reprezentacija figure omladine koja je toliko važna u jugoslavenskome socijalističkom društvu uzimajući u obzir kategoriju roda, s druge strane možemo proširiti svoje razumijevanje društveno-kulturnoga konteksta u kojemu se ta figura proizvodi.
By engaging the debates on feminist postclassical narratology and by approaching literary representations of girls as one of the sites of the production of girlhood, understood as a category independent of concrete discursive articulations and not as a reflection of a stable biological or social category, this paper focuses on the analysis of Josip Barković’s Alma and aims to contribute to discussions on the relationship between gender and narration. Specifically, it argues that gender must not be considered in isolation or, in other words, that ignoring the broader socio-cultural context while discussing novels about Yugoslav girls would mean ignoring the significance of Yugoslav socialism and attributing a feminist impulse to Barković’s novel. A brief discussion of the theoretical and socio-cultural context allows for the analysis of Barković’s novel focused on the narrative fashioning of girlhood and the figure of the girl in order to show that a consideration of the context of the novel and its further existence in the cultural field provides a twofold advantage. On the one hand, it broadens the understanding of the actual cultural representations of the figure of youth with their incredibly important role in the Yugoslav socialist society while taking into account the category of gender. On the other hand, it expands the understanding of the socio-cultural context in which that figure is produced.
By engaging the debates on feminist postclassical narratology and by approaching literary representations of girls as one of the sites of the production of girlhood, understoodas a category ...independent of concrete discursive articulations and not as a reflection ofa stable biological or social category, this paper focuses on the analysis of Josip Barković’s Alma and aims to contribute to discussions on the relationship between genderand narration. Specifically, it argues that gender must not be considered in isolationor, in other words, that ignoring the broader socio-cultural context while discussingnovels about Yugoslav girls would mean ignoring the significance of Yugoslav socialismand attributing a feminist impulse to Barković’s novel. A brief discussion of the theoretical and socio-cultural context allows for the analysis of Barković’s novel focused onthe narrative fashioning of girlhood and the figure of the girl in order to show that aconsideration of the context of the novel and its further existence in the cultural fieldprovides a twofold advantage. On the one hand, it broadens the understanding of theactual cultural representations of the figure of youth with their incredibly importantrole in the Yugoslav socialist society while taking into account the category of gender.On the other hand, it expands the understanding of the socio-cultural context in whichthat figure is produced.
This paper offers an analysis of the youth magazine Plavi vjesnik (1954–1973) and a number of discussions on the topic of youth and popular culture published at the same time. By doing so, it aims to ...contribute to the study of the Yugoslav culture that emerged in the post-WWII period not only by mapping a previously unresearched field, but also by underlining the exceptional significance of the field of the popular and the category of youth for the broader issue of the Yugoslav socialist project. Based on an examination of specific articulations of the figure of youth and the audience of popular culture, this paper shows that youth came to function as the privileged space for negotiating the tensions that characterized the relationship between the Yugoslav vision of modernity and the developing field of the popular.
The cultural treatment of wagelessness and welfare as its potential relief serves as a potent example of how popular culture has long functioned as a site at which American society articulates and ...negotiates its anxieties. Observing a recent departure from the figure of the “welfare queen” as the privileged site at which anxieties related to welfare are organized, and linking this change to the neoliberal transformations of welfare in the United States introduced by the 1996 reform, this paper adopts a Foucauldian approach to the issue of government in order to set the ground for an analysis of contemporary films which negotiate the conditions of wageless life in what has often been termed a post-welfare society. Looking at Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Florida Project as illustrative of a broader representational trend, this paper examines the role of popular culture in negotiating social changes by exploring the ways in which the two films negotiate dominant discourses of personal responsibility and work opportunity through the newly emergent figure of the “surplus population.”
Rad se bavi pitanjem seksualnoga odgoja u odgojno-obrazovnom kontekstu u prvoj polovini 20. stoljeća. Ono što je karakteristično za to razdoblje, ali i čitavo stoljeće, jest postojanje dvostrukih ...standarda u odgoju i obrazovanju dječaka i djevojčica, prema kojima je ženska seksualnost uglavnom nevidljiva. Prijetnja društvu bio je muški spolni nagon, koji je trebalo kontrolirati, pa se većina propisa, normi, knjiga, uputa i zakona bavila tom tematikom. Dominantan je utjecaj Katoličke crkve, koja je raznim zakonskim i moralnim regulativama određivala granice prihvatljivog odnosno neprihvatljivog ponašanja te zagovarala isključivo apstinenciju. Pogled na seksualnost bio je negativan, barem na deklarativnoj razini, pa se na razne načine provodila politika kontrole, discipline i zastrašivanja. To se potkrepljivalo netočnim medicinskim „činjenicama” o štetnosti pretjeranoga izlučivanja tjelesnih tekućina, što pak dovodi do slabljenja živčanoga sustava i raznih drugih ozbiljnih poremećaja. Spomenuti elementi karakteriziraju prvu polovinu 20. stoljeća te se jasno ocrtavaju u izvorima korištenima u ovom radu.
The urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) system is a complex regulator of extracellular proteolysis which is involved in various physiological and pathological processes. The major components of ...this system are the serine protease uPA, two inhibitors PAI-1 and PAI-2, and the receptor uPAR. It has been previously shown by several groups that the uPA system has an important role in cancer progression and therefore its possible prognostic and therapeutic value has been evaluated. The aim of this study is to tackle the role of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation in the induction of uPA activity in a glioblastoma cell line, A1235. This cell line is sensitive to alkylation damage and is a model for drug treatment. The components of the uPA system and the level of DNA damage were analyzed after alkylation agent treatment in combination with poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase-1 (PARP-1) inhibition. Here we show that the increase in uPA activity results from the net balance change between uPA and its inhibitor at mRNA level. Further, PARP-1 inhibition exerts its influence on uPA activity through DNA damage increase. Involvement of several signaling pathways, as well as cell specific regulation influencing the uPA system are discussed.
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