A brief herstory of living and dying in a collection of poems Until the Next Death by Senka Marić

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Raljević, S. (2017). A brief herstory of living and dying in a collection of poems Until the Next Death by Senka Marić, (157), 34-48. doi:10.5937/kultura1757034R
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Title

A brief herstory of living and dying in a collection of poems Until the Next Death by Senka Marić

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Author

Selma, Raljević

Journal

Kultura

Volume
Issue

157

Start page

34

End page

48

ISSN

0023-5164

ISBN
DOI

10.5937/kultura1757034R

URL

http://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?query=ISSID%26and%2613606&page=0&so...

Date

2017-2021/07/01/11:09:37

Abstract

Senka Marić, an acclaimed Bosnian and Herzegovinian poetess, has written a brief 'herstory' of female living and dying in her 2016 collection of poems Until the Next Death. Unlike history - seen as HIStory, meaning that history is mainly written by men - HERstory reveals a woman's side of the world through her personal story. Until the Next Death is, in many ways, an autobiographical collection, so it can be seen as a poetic memoir of Senka Marić. One of its many poetic levels is her own genesis, both as a poetess and a woman. Also, it could be seen as a lyrical novel depicting her female ontology. Accordingly, this paper analyses the concepts of female 'being' and 'not-being' in Senka Marić's book Until the Next Death, as well as the elements of autobiographisation and mythologisation of herstory, including elements of matrilineality in all these cases.

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