Victims – Alienated – Agents. The Women’s Point of View on Violence and War
in the Contemporary (Post)Yugoslav Drama and Theatre Cover Image

Ofiary – wyobcowane – sprawczynie. Kobiecy punkt widzenia na przemoc i wojnę we współczesnym dramacie i teatrze (post)jugosłowiańskim
Victims – Alienated – Agents. The Women’s Point of View on Violence and War in the Contemporary (Post)Yugoslav Drama and Theatre

Author(s): Gabriela Abrasowicz, Magdalena Koch
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Military history, Evaluation research, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, Peace and Conflict Studies, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: (anti)war female dramaturgy; violence; artivism; (post)Yugoslav drama and theatre; gender studies;

Summary/Abstract: The bloody conflicts accompanying the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991–1995 have become one of the extremely interesting, recurrent subject in the (post)Yugoslav drama and theatre. The female artists and playwrights also leap at a chance to abreact the horrors of war. Their engaged art and writing defined by a syntagma: (anti)war female dramaturgy arises interest, because it is situated/placed in the opposition to the masculinist mode of describing armed conflicts, their side effects and consequences. The paper presents three categories of contemporary (post) Yugoslav female drama heroines who represent three role models in war narratives: Victims – Alienated – Agents. The analytical part of a paper consists of three parts.

  • Issue Year: 13/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 237-255
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish