Hrvatsko-bosanskohercegovačka paralela u ženskom ratnom diskursu
Croatian-Bosnian-and-Herzegovinian Parallel in Women’s War Discourse

Summary/Abstract: The paper elaborates the parallel between two different literatures, which, having been shaped by similar conditions (they were both determined by war, which shifts the focus to the issue of both individual and group identity), provide context for one another. The elaborated writers (Ružica Hrnjkaš and Emica Rubil) belong to a group that cultivates the war discourse in its narrow sense (the original accounts of war) by witnessing the reality carved into the body. The strong reality of the time launched a restoration of mimeticity as a productive poetic principle. The context of war and the immediate involvement of the authors in the current state of affairs mobilize emotional and positive energy while also infusing the text with a clarion call. The low degree of fictionalization suits the documentaristic and enlightening tendencies well. Its ideologicity imposes itself as an important structural layer: it is traditionalistic, authenticated by the group’s modus vivendi. Absence of quality characteristic for a women’s writing is evident. Even if the chosen women writers do not spearhead the aesthetic assessment of the text, they are crucial as witnesses of the time, writers whose words are authentic and confirmed by personal experience.

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