ФЕМИНИСТИЧКА РЕВИЗИЈА НА ИСТОРИЈАТА: МАКЕДОНСКИ КОНТЕКСТ - РОМАНОТ КУКЛИТЕ НА РОСИЦА ОД ОЛИВЕРА НИКОЛОВА
Feminist Revision of History: Macedonian Context The Novel Rosica’s Dolls by Olivera Nikolova

Summary/Abstract: Olivera Nikolova’s novel, Rosica’s Dolls (2004), rewrites a part of Macedonian history during the Macedonian revival in the 19th century, with the difference that the mute girl Rosica is placed at the center of the story. Rewriting is a typical form of women’s writing, i.e. écriture féminine or women’s writing, and Nikolova’s novel, Kuklite na Rosica, is part of Macedonian women’s writing. Rosica’s Dolls is a Macedonian novel divided into three chapters that describe the events that took place in the second half of the nineteenth century in Macedonia, more precisely in the period from 1879 to 1899. The novel depicts the turbulent events related to the beginnings of the creation of the Macedonian national identity. Nikolova writes this novel as a direct rewriting of a part of Macedonian history in which the focus is on the merits and achievements of the great influential men of Macedonian history - Goce Delchev, Kuzman Shapkarev, Marko Cepenkov, Grigor Prlichev, Dimitar Miladinov and Gjorgija Pulevski, with that the difference, that in her novel she places a female character - Rosica - in the center of the stories, and these influential men have a direct or indirect influence on her life. In the novel, through the events in the great historical narrative, Nikolova, through the character of Rosica, introduces Rosica’s personal history, that is, the oral, unwritten history, the one present in the folk narratives, which remained secondary and less relevant than those official historical records.

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