Ažinova škola poezije: konstrukcija istorije i budućnost druge linije
AŽIN’s School of Poetry: The Construction of History and the Future of the Second Line

Author(s): Dubravka Đurić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: self-reflexivity; AŽIN’s school of poetry; historicisation of poetry; poetic experiment; second line
Summary/Abstract: The paper considers AŽIN’s school of poetry as a specific historicisation illustrating two significant levels. The first level refers to the realisation of a creative community of female authors who, through their practice, developed an engaged poetic discourse in the context of feminist institutions in the 1990s. This discourse arises from the belief that poetry is a specific field of knowledge within which it is possible to develop self-reflexive writing positions. The result of that effort is the hybridisation of poetic procedures in mixing poetry and theory, and work on the formal aspects of the poem. On the second level, in the process of a new historicisation of experimental poetry, I will place their practice in the context of the second line (to use Ješa Denegri’s term). The discontinuities of experimental poetic practice as a specific female practice in a historical perspective are revealed. At the same time, a question about the future of the poetic experiment in the local context arises. Th is narrative will reveal the struggles within a marginal field such as poetry to define poetic practice as a theory of practice.

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