PRZECIW MITOM – O MROCZNYCH STRONACH MACIERZYŃSTWA W POWIEŚCI SLAVENKI DRAKULIĆ – OPTUŽENA
AGAINST THE MYTHS – ABOUT THE DARK SIDE OF MOTHERHOOD IN SLAVENKA DRAKULIČ'S NOVEL OPTUŽENA

Summary/Abstract: Starting with Jean Jacob Rousseau’s, Sigmund Freud’s and feminists’ of the second wave views on maternity, the paper shows Slavenka Drakulič’s ideas presented in her novel Optužena. The Croatian author rejects the myth of maternal love by writing about violence against the child and pathology in the mother-daughter relationship. The problem of transgenerational transmission of trauma is shown in an interesting literary way and it is really innovatory.

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