Intertekstualni tragovi i ženska subjektivnost u ratu: Istorija Else Morante i Skretnice Jasmine Musabegović
Intertextual traces and female subjectivity in the war in Elsa Morante’s History and Jasmina Musabegović’s Skretnice

Summary/Abstract: This paper explores the possible intertextual and poetic connections between Elsa Morante’s History: a Novel and Jasmina Musabegović’s Skretnice, starting from the hypothesis of an indirect influence grounded in their thematic affinities and in the editorial context surrounding the 1987 Serbo Croatian trans lation of Morante’s novel. The analysis focuses on several key points of conver gence: the position of the woman as the Other within the wartime setting; the specific burden of origin carried by both protagonists; the lyrical and intimate perception of everyday life under global conflict; motherhood as a political act of resistance; and the role of corporeality and dreams as narrative spaces where trauma is inscribed. The study also highlights the strikingly similar open endings of both novels, which suggest a continuous cycle of violence and invite further intertextual reading. The theoretical and methodological framework draws on contemporary feminist and poststructuralist approaches. Particular attention is dedicated to Julia Kristeva’s concepts of the semiotic and the symbolic, under stood as intertwined forces that shape subjectivity and language, as well as to Sara Ruddick’s notion of maternal thinking as an ethical and political response to war and violence. The comparative analysis demonstrates that, despite their different cultural and national contexts, both novels articulate a shared poetics of female testimony, offering an anti war narrative in which literature becomes a space of resistance, remembrance, and the reaffirmation of marginalized female experience.

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