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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]

  • 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.

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Author:Milena Kaličanin, Vladislava Gordić Petković
Parent Title (Serbocroatic):Knjizevna smotra: Casopis za svjetsku knjizevnost (Zagreb), No. 1 (2021), pp. 71-78. [Online ISSN 2459-6329] [hrcak.srce.hr/file/379345]
Document Type:Articles
Language:Serbocroatic
Year of first Publication:2021
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:PDF-file to download
IdNo:Kalicanin_and_M_Gordic_Petkovic_V_2021
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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