Virtual worlds in contemporary Serbian women's fiction

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Gordić-Petković, V. (2015). Virtual worlds in contemporary Serbian women's fiction, (146), 119-130. doi:10.5937/kultura1546119G
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Title

Virtual worlds in contemporary Serbian women's fiction

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Author

Vladislava, Gordić-Petković

Journal

Kultura

Volume
Issue

146

Start page

119

End page

130

ISSN

0023-5164

ISBN
DOI

10.5937/kultura1546119G

URL

http://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?query=ISSID%26and%2612288&page=0&so...

Date

2015-2021/06/21/07:30:46

Abstract

The paper is an attempt at illustrating the radical changes in the way in which gender, media and literature interact. Its intention is also to examine the ways in which the media and new digital technologies contribute to representations of gender-linked communication in the novels written by Vida Ognjenović, Ljubica Arsić, Tamara Jecić and Dunja Radosavljević. The new informational technologies have managed to capture the voices lingering at the margins, helping women transcend their real-life grounded identities and explore new narrative practices. The process of identification of women's social self as depicted in contemporary Serbian women's writing (such as Dunja Radosavljević's Life After America, Tamara Jecić's Stinky Onion, Vida Ognjenović's The Address is Correct and Ljubica Arsić's All Inclusive) lavishly uses computer mediated communication. These books introduce different kinds of women's narratives, ranging from intimate confessions in letters and journals to experimental practices involving different points of view and focalisation. The aim of the paper is to analyze the ways gender is redefined in the cyberrituals of womanhood.

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