СРПСКЕ КЊИЖЕВНИЦЕ У БОСАНСКОХЕРЦЕГОВАЧКИМ ЛИСТОВИМА КРАЈЕМ 19. ВЕКА
SERBIAN WOMEN WRITERS IN BOSNIAN AND HERZEGOVINIAN PERIODICALS AT THE END OF THE 19th CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this research is to shed some light on the unsigned male and female editors of Bosanska vila (Bosnian Fairy) and Zora (Dawn) at the end of the 19th century and to explain the importance of a new cultural identity of the Serbian women writers and their stories. So far, little has been known about the important women’s biographical texts and their portraits on the main pages of Bosanska vila, which confirmed the glory of the significant women. Serbian women writers promoted new and complex narratives of emancipated literary heroes of both genders; they created new plots, which undermined the authority of patriarchal culture. Milka Grgurova created a character of a Serbian woman who abandons her national identity because of love. Contrary to South Slavic regional cultural and literary journals at that time, Herzegovinian Zora dedicated the whole December 1899 issue to the Serbian female writers, confronting with its assigned editor’s negative attitudes (Jovan Dučić) toward female intellectuals. It turned out that some other “ghost” editor, Atanasije Šola, suported the new women of the time. Despite these facts, the representatives of institutional public knowledge did not adequately interpret the women’s writings, nor did they establish correct facts about the new cultural group of educated women writers. For these reasons the value of the women’s writings has remained unknown.

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