Rad i rod u Čudnovatim zgodama šegrta Hlapića i Pričama iz davnine
Labour and Gender in The Strange Adventures of Hlapić theApprentice and Tales of Long Ago

Summary/Abstract: The starting point for this paper is the paratextual elements from Ivana Brlić-Mažuranićʼs diary entries and autobiographical notes. The paper analyses an array of male, female, and child characters within various antinomies (active/public versus passive/private) and follows the generational segregation of female characters. An optimal model of the patriarchal myth is examined in connection with the biological and social roles of the nomad man and the nesting woman. Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić simultaneously preserves and destabilises this model. The paper also studies narrative “thresholds” between the realistic and the supernatural – as female work, as Rousseauian “disorder” – in which both the literary heroines and the female author take part.

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