Draga Dejanović’s Poetic Erotography Cover Image

Поетски еротопис Драге Дејановић
Draga Dejanović’s Poetic Erotography

Author(s): Žarka Svirčev
Subject(s): Gender history, Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Филолошки факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: Draga Dejanović; love poetry; eroticism; female poetic tradition

Summary/Abstract: Draga Dejanović’s poetry, next to Milica Stojadinović Srpkinja’s verses, is one of the sources of the modern Serbian female poetry. Her poetic word is rebellious, sensual, passionate, playful. She extolled the female eroticism and pleasure in her poetry and defied the patriarchal social conventions by debating erotic taboos and caricatures which were present in the folklore heritage and handwritten songbooks of the 18th and the 19th century. She anticipated modernist iconoclasm by echoing female poetic voices.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 103-112
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian