„Death in the Museum of Modern Art” by Alma Lazarevska as an Example of Women’s Writing
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Smrt u muzeju moderne umjetnosti Almy Lazarevskiej jako przyklad zenskog pisma w literaturze bosniackiej
„Death in the Museum of Modern Art” by Alma Lazarevska as an Example of Women’s Writing about War in Bosnian Literature

Author(s): Anna Modelska-Kwaśniowska
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Bosnian literature;; writing about war; women’s writing; women’s writing about war; Alma Lazarevska

Summary/Abstract: Alma Lazarevska is one of the most conspicuous modern writers from Bosnia, and her collection of short stories Death in the Museum of Modern Art is a uniquely interesting literary realization included in the current women’s writing about war. There are six short stories where the author described various life experiences of women in besieged Sarajevo. The presentation of the war reality is constructed from the point of view of a female narrator and is fragmentary in its character. The space of the besieged city is limited to the private space of home, the intimate zone inhabited mainly by women. One of the characteristic features of this narration is the precise description, construction of time subject to the memory of the narrator (which results in constant interspersing of the events from before and from the time of the siege, as they determine one another) and body writing (e.g. the motif of home, milk, water and body).

  • Issue Year: 17/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 77-88
  • Page Count: 11