The Hidden History of New Women in Serbian Culture: Toward a New History of Literature

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Notes
Part I: The New Women and their Cultural Contributions
Chapter 1: Draga Gavrilović, the First Serbian Female Novelist: The Old and New Interpretations
	Male Authority over Knowledge
	Draga Gavrilović’s Resistance to the Patriarchal Culture and Literature
	Gendered Norms and Individual Motivations
	The Degradation of the “Women Who Think”
	Notes
Chapter 2: Queen Natalija Obrenović: The Complexity of Her Public Engagements and Her Different Contributions to Serbian Society and Culture
	Discrepancy in Literary Reception and Historiographical Research
	Well-Known Biographical Facts
	New Biographical Insights
	Correspondence
	Book of Stories: A Mother and a Son
	The Book of Aphorisms
	Notes
Chapter 3: Milka Aleksić Grgurova: An Actress Taking on the World of Writing
	Building a Successful Acting Career
	An Actress Taking on the World of Writing
	Grgurova’s Writing in the Context of Serbian Literary Production
	Practicing Craft in Other Genres
	Notes
Chapter 4: Jelena J. Dimitrijević, A World-Traveler: The Authority of the New Women’s Knowledge
	The Distinctive Feminist Poetics of the First Generation of Serbian Female Writers
	Jelena J. Dimitrijević’s Feminism and her Travel Writings
	Comparing Dimitrijević’s Travelogues to the Canonical Serbian Writers of Travel Literature
	Notes
Part II: Some of the Men Who Supported New Women
Chapter 5: Dragutin Ilić and Queen Natalija
	The Liberal, Antidogmatic, and Anticlerical Spirit of Dragutin Ilić
	Queen Natalija’s Novel
	Perceiving Woman Differently
	Notes
Chapter 6: Uroš Predić and Danica Bandić
	Early South Slavic Women Writers of the Children’s Literature and Evaluation of their Work
	Tera Baba Kozliće
	Provoking Gender and Cultural Stereotype
	Predić’s Illustrations
	“The Third Subjectivity”
	Notes
Part III: The Construction, Reconstruction, and Deconstruction of Memory of New Women
Chapter 7: Rediscovering Serbian Women’s Memoirs: Gendered Comparison in a Historical Context
	Memoirs and/in Serbian History
	Women’s Memoirs Rediscovered
	Memoirs: A Gendered Comparison
	Notes
Chapter 8: A Bibliography: A Tool for Reconstructing the History of Women Translators
	The Main Findings
	Women Engaged in Translation
	Notes
Chapter 9: From a Ruined Tomb to the First Public Monument Dedicated to a Woman: Constructing the Memory of the First Serbian Poetess
	The Most Important Details of Milica Stojadinović’s Life and Work
	What Happened after the Golden Ages of Milica Stojadinović’s Glory?
	How Exactly Did Women React to the Skerlić’s Text?
	Actions with Big Impacts
	Notes
Chapter 10: The Remembering Project: The First Album of Famous Women in Serbian Culture
	Three Groundbreaking Achievements of Srpkinja
	Correcting and Regulating Public Memory of Significant Women in Serbian Culture
	The Differences between the Almanac and the Album
	How It All Started?
	The Album and the Concept of Women’s Fame
	The Importance of Srpkinja
	The Reception of Srpkinja: Its Fate
	Notes
Conclusion
Bibliography
	Original Literary Works
	Secondary Sources
Index
About the Author