Žene i kulturno pamćenje između bajke i nacije
Women and Cultural Memory between Tale and Nation
A New Genre in Popular Culture and (Dis)continuity of Feminist Dialogue
Author(s): Jelena LalatovićSubject(s): Gender Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Keywords: cultural memory; feminism; genre; gender; popular culture; blog; women’s history
Summary/Abstract: Collected stories about women who changed society (What a Woman, Stories of Defiant Serbs, Women of BiH, Stories of Fearless Croatian Women) can be interpreted as parts of a common, but not uniform literary and publishing phenomenon, since they share similar features in terms of genre and rhetoric, as well as the fact that they have been published at approximately the same time. Bearing in mind that this genre is closely related to popular youth culture forms and discourses, the aim of this paper is twofold. First, to examine which discursive strategies enable the transmission of feminist-oriented cultural memory to popular culture. In addition, since the practice and analysis of cultural memory may constitute a form of activism in itself (Hirsch & Smith 2002), the aim of this paper is also to analyze the ways in which these collected stories interpret women’s struggle in the past, that is, what kind of feminism for 21st century they offer.
Journal: Genero: časopis za feminističku teoriju i studije kulture
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 23
- Page Range: 151-173
- Page Count: 23
- Language: Serbian