From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent: A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature

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Contents
I Introduction: On Post-Yugoslavia and the Female Continent
	I 1. Post-Yugoslav Literature: A Utopia and a Field
	I 2. A Feminist Framing of the post-Yugoslav Literary Field
	I 3. Summary
II Women’s Writing and Critical Nostalgia: On Ildiko Lovas’ Fiction
	II 1. Borders of Time and Space and Authorship: “Via del Corso I”
	II 2. On Real and Fictional Identities: “Stvarni konobar”
	II 3. Totalitarianism and Misogyny: “Zlatna priča”
III Post-Yugoslav Écriture Féminine
	III 1. Tanja Stupar Trifunović’s Satovi u majčinoj sobi: ‘Writing the Body’ as a Signpost
		III 1.1. To Meet the (M)other
		III 1.2. Female Difference and Writing
	III 2. Tea Tulić’s Kosa posvuda: How to Write the Death of Mother
		III 2.1. Female Camaraderie vs. Real World
		III 2.2. Back to Chora? On Mother and Writing
	III 3. Ivana Bodrožić’s Hotel Zagorje: The Death of the Father and the Coming of Age as the War Novel
		III 3.1. To be a Refugee: Internalization and Reproduction of Enmity
		III 3.2. Lures and Fears of Coming of Age
		III 3.3. An Absent Witness to the Father’s Death
IV The Other Writing: Atonement and Female Authorship in Snežana Andrejević’s and Luka Bekavac’s Fiction
	IV 1. Snežana Andrejević’s Životu je najteže: A ‘Two‐faced’ Narrator
		IV 1.1. On the Front Line: Trans, Trance
	IV 2. Luka Bekavac’s Drenje and Viljevo: Beyond Severed Ends of Space and Time
	IV 3. The Medium is the Message: Female Voices and Sound
V What to Do With the Past? Feminist Literary Historiographies I: Olja Savičević Ivančević’s Adio, kauboju
	V 1. On the Real, Fictional and Female Cowboys
	V 2. Staging the Western. Why the Past Does Not Fit the Present?
	V 3. Saint Fjoko Festival: Difference and the Carnevalization of Gender
	V 4. The Body/House Trope: Essentialization and Emancipation
	V 5. Marija Čarija’s Western: Righteousness and Tragic Heroin
	V 6. Migrant, Worker, Author: An Open End as the Beginning
VI What to Do With the Past? Feminist Literary Historiographies II:Slobodan Tišma’s Bernardijeva soba
	VI 1. Objects of the Past, Past of the Objects: Past as Belonging(s)
	VI 2. Parental Home: On (Im)possible Identifications
	VI 3. Pol and Politika: Women in Pairs and the Politics of Literature
	VI 4. Colonizing a Utopia: Jouissance, Difference and Authorship
	VI 5. Neo‐avant-garde and Feminist Foundations of post-Yugoslav Literature
		VI 5.1. Appendix: Situationist International and the Esoteric Neo‐avant-garde in Bernardijeva soba
VII Conclusions. Inherited Possibility, Or: Choosing The Optimal Variant
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