Ancestresses and female legacy in Marijana Čanak's 'Foremothers'

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Sedlarević, M. (2020). Ancestresses and female legacy in Marijana Čanak's 'Foremothers', (169), 347-362. doi:10.5937/kultura2069347S
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Title

Ancestresses and female legacy in Marijana Čanak's 'Foremothers'

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Author

Maja, Sedlarević

Journal

Kultura

Volume
Issue

169

Start page

347

End page

362

ISSN

0023-5164

ISBN
DOI

10.5937/kultura2069347S

URL

http://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?query=ISSID%26and%2615363&page=0&so...

Date

2020-2021/07/05/10:50:28

Abstract

Using the term "gynocriticism", coined by Elaine Showalter fifty years ago, and other critical practices which explore the creativity of women, the paper sets out to explore continuity of women's narratives about experience, change, happiness and misfortune represented in the second book of stories by Marijana Čanak. Her collection of stories, titled Pramatere easily translated as "Foremothers", delves deep into the lives of several generations of women who fight against the shortcomings of their respective lives, and struggle to keep the legacy of their grandmothers and mothers alive. Marijana Čanak focuses on the aims gynocriticism has defined as the most important, such as the objective to change the male-oriented literary heritage and to focus on the lives of women who have been silenced, marginalized and neglected.

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