@article{KaličaninGordićPetković, author = {Kaličanin, Milena and Gordić Petković, Vladislava}, title = {Od utopije do aeenskog kontinenta: matrifokalne vrijednosti i vizije aenske slobode u suvremenom srpskom romanu [From Utopia to Herland: Matrifocal Values and Visions of Women's Freedom in the Contemporary Serbian Writing]}, series = {Knjizevna smotra: Casopis za svjetsku knjizevnost (Zagreb), No. 1 (2021), pp. 71-78. [Online ISSN 2459-6329] [hrcak.srce.hr/file/379345]}, journal = {Knjizevna smotra: Casopis za svjetsku knjizevnost (Zagreb), No. 1 (2021), pp. 71-78. [Online ISSN 2459-6329] [hrcak.srce.hr/file/379345]}, abstract = {In >The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future< (1987), Riana Eisler asserts that the Neolithic societies used to follow a >partnership model< of civilization that rested on egalitarian and matrifocal values. However, over time, it gave way to the current >dominator model< that focuses on masculine ideals of superiority and dominance. It is her genuine belief that a historical transition from earlier idyllic to more aggressive cultures can be reversed in order for the matriarchal society to be constructed again in the future. This theoretical framework will be employed in the comparative analysis of two modern Serbian novels that seek a vision of feminist utopia at the end of the 20th century: Mirjana Novakovic's >The Danube's Apocrypha< (1996) and Judita Salgo's >A Voyage to Birobijan< (1997). Novakovic's short novel describes an uprising threatening to overturn the social order in the near future and has a female narrator who shares with the reader the testimony concerning a secret com-munity of women, which is >silently awaiting< its Goddess to appear. Salgo's posthumous, unfinished novel partly reads as a proclamation of a new religious doctrine about the female Christ figure named Messiana and her ardent acolytes who spread the word about a hideaway which would serve to shelter the vulnerable and the endangered. Though the original intention of both Salgo and Novakovic was to sup-port the destitute and unprotected women of the Balkans by creating the characters and the plots reminiscent of their plight, their writing turned into an unparalleled quest for the continent of the female, a very particular Utopia. The following analysis is also based on the analytical approaches of Bloom, Eagleton, Fromm, Loentz and Pike.}, language = {mul} } @article{Kaličanin, author = {Kaličanin, Milena M.}, title = {>A progress that threatens all life<: Nature vs. nurture in Duncan Williamson's >Mary and the Seal< [>Напредак који угрожава живот<: питање природе и одгоја у причи Данкана Вилијамсона >Мери и фока<] [application of Fromm's theories to art]}, series = {Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Prištini, Vol. 50, No. 3 (2020), pp. 211-228. [Online ISSN 2217-8082] [doi.org/10.5937/ZRFFP50-28032]}, journal = {Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Prištini, Vol. 50, No. 3 (2020), pp. 211-228. [Online ISSN 2217-8082] [doi.org/10.5937/ZRFFP50-28032]}, abstract = {The paper first discusses two documentaries by Donna Read, >Signs Out of Time< (2004) and >Goddess Remembered< (1989), that focus on the pacific tradition of the female centered settlements on the territories of modern Eastern Europe in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Read depicts significant findings of a world-renowned archeologist Marija Gimbutas who claims that a peaceful image of Old Europe embodied in the omnipotent Great Mother changed radically towards the end of the third millennium when violent Indo-European nomads came from Russia and shattered the matriarchal utopia of equality and natural harmony. These tribes introduced the principles of hierarchy and violent male-rule. Read's and Gimbutas' findings are further developed and examined in the studies by Riana Eisler and Erich Fromm who also claim that conspicuous material aggrandizement of patriarchal culture severely damaged a blissful matriarchal bond between man and nature. These theoretical insights are applied to Williamson's compre hension of nature vs. nurture issue in >Mary and the Seal< (1997). In portraying a tender relationship between Mary and the seal, as well as its tragic and totally unnecessary shooting, contemporary patriarchal culture is brought to a trial. The mere existence of the bond between Mary and the seal, an embodiment of an idyllic matriarchal unity between man and nature, testifies to the prevalent need for the return to its substantial but long-forgotten values. The theoretical insights of Graves, Althusser, Freire, Fiske and Miller will also be used in the interpretation of the story.}, language = {en} }