Hitherto anonymous writer Hristina Petković

Bojan, Đorđević

Prilozi za knjizevnost, jezik, istoriju i folklor

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http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?id=0350-66731480083D

2014-2020/02/11/12:07:15

“The Belgrade Paper”, the organ of the Military General Government for Serbia, was issued from December 1915 to October 1918 and was the only periodical in occupied Serbia. After an initial hesitation, even some Serbian authors eventually accepted the cooperation with the journal, publishing their poetry and prose in it. Certain renowned names include Isidora Sekulić, Bora Stanković, Milica Janković and Milorad Petrović Seljančica. However, for the most part, its contributors came from the ranks of the so-called minor writers, and to some of them, the poems and short stories published in “The Belgrade Paper” were the only works that they printed. Among them is also Hristina Petković, author of three short stories - Nina, Poverty and The Confession. An analysis of these stories can reveal that they essentially belong to the poetics of the so-called trivial literature, with pronouncedly amatory and partly social topics, especially focusing on the fate of the woman in collision with the patriarchal mentality. Owing to the archival materials from the Archive of Serbia and the Austrian State Archive, the paper demonstrates that the author is in fact the wife of Serbian poet Vladislav Petković Dis.