{"id":24715,"date":"2021-01-22T19:25:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=24715"},"modified":"2021-01-22T19:25:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:25:03","slug":"jelena-petrovic-womens-authorship-in-interwar-yugoslavia-the-politics-of-love-and-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=24715","title":{"rendered":"Jelena Petrovi\u0107, \u201cWomen\u2019s Authorship in Interwar Yugoslavia: The Politics of Love and Struggle\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This book highlights the extent to which women were positioned as historical subjects in the process of constructing political, social, and cultural history in Yugoslavia, while simultaneously facing the politics of institutional exclusion and academic ignorance of progressive ideas and emancipatory struggles. To this effect, the book interprets a series of works written in interwar Yugoslavia by women or about women\u2019s position in public space. The research corpus is varied, including LGBT literature, autobiographies, travelogues, literary correspondence, political writings, parody, bibliographies and dictionaries, etc. The book argues that women have been programmatically made absent from the so-called universal canon of (post)Yugoslav literature, or else negatively valorised or labeled, while at the same time women\u2019s writing in interwar Yugoslavia reflected, articulated and mapped significant social, political and cultural issues. The book proposes a re-reading of the once censored and forgotten texts to counter the politics of exclusion that operates even today in the post-Yugoslav space. This re-reading is carried out in the light of contemporary feminist theories and aims to reveal and emphasise the emancipatory importance of women\u2019s authorship. In this way, Jelena Petrovi\u0107 provides a fresh perspective on the topical issue of the still contested (post)Yugoslav space.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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