Two examples of gender-construct in Balkan literature : Kostastas Tachtsis, Dragoslav Mihajlović
Slapšak, Svetlana
Two male authors, in two different contexts, imagined their female protagonists: Kostas Tachtsis, a prolific Greek author and himself a homosexual, wrote a novel on a woman's endurance in the ...challenging and dangerous Greek political urban context over a period of some 50 years, under the title 'Third Wreath' ("The Third Wedding Wreath", 1962); Serbian author Dragoslav Mihajlović, a former pro-soviet sympathizer and political prisoner on 'Goli Otok', at the half-yaz point to his present-day nationalism, wrote the novel 'Petria's Wreath'(1975), in which a rural female protagonist is a suffering icon-beaten, ill, poor, abandoned, widowed, a metaphor for collective, people's suffering. In both cases, a feminine persona is supposed to deconstruct, construct, or destabilize the ruling/serving female prototype. In both inventions a shadow-male is inscribed into the proposed female model. In both cases, the female protagonist serves as a screen for criticism of the correspondent local male-dominant model. Both authors voice a kind of (male) de-centered gender position, or, put more simply, an endagered sexuality: a sexually instable voyeur, a homosexual, a traumatized/tortured former prisoner. Women's criticism of Balkan men's attitudes does not correspond fully with this: in women's writing a men are usually accused of selfishness, inclination to war and violence, and power-struggle. The quest for similiar de-centered gender presentation could revive the debate on gender of the author, somehow lost in the late 70s.
It was not necessary to add the material to the shelf.
Bibliographic material was successfully added on shelf.
Adding bibliographical material on shelf was not successful.
Material is already on the shelf.
Permalink
URL:
Impact factor
Access to the JCR database is permitted only to users from Slovenia. Your current IP address is not on the list of IP addresses with access permission, and authentication with the relevant AAI accout is required.
Year
Impact factor
Edition
Category
Classification
JCR
SNIP
JCR
SNIP
JCR
SNIP
JCR
SNIP
Select the library membership card:
DRS,
in which the journal is indexed
Database name
Field
Year
Links to authors' personal bibliographies
Links to information on researchers in the SICRIS system
Subject headings in COBISS General List of Subject Headings
Select pickup location
The material from the parent unit is free. If the material is delivered to the pickup location from another unit, the library may charge you for this service.
