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Przeciw mitom - o mrocznych stronach macierzyństwa w powieści Slavenki Drakulić - "Optužena"
2017
Starting with Jean Jacob Rousseau’s, Sigmund Freud’s and feminists’ of the second wave views on matemity, the paper shows Slavenka Drakulić’s ideas presented in her novel Optužena. The Croatian author rejects the myth of matemal love by writing about yiolence against the child and pathology in the mother-daughter relationship. The problem of transgenerational transmission of trauma is shown in an interesting literary way and it is really innovatory.
O materinstvu na drugi način - prećutane strane materinstva u romanu "Optužena" Slavenke Drakulić
2017
Slavenka Drakulić is a Croatian journalist and writer, known as a feminist who writes about the problems in women’s lives. In the novel Optužena (2012), she demonstrates in an interesting, artistic way the less known questions of motherhood, often ignored and tabooed in social discourse. It is known that starting from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas about maternity, it has been idealized and used in order to constrain women within the patriarchal system, by identifying them primarily as mothers. The concepts of Sigmund Freud, who believed maternity and maternal love to be natural and appropriate for every “standard” woman, contributed to turning into taboos some pathologies connected with mat…
Śmierć, nieobecność i samotność - motyw traumatyzującej utraty matki w zbiorze opowiadań Lejli Kalamujić "Zovite me Esteban"
2019
Lejla Kalamujić (bom 1980) is a Bosnian writer from Sarajevo and the author of two collections of stories: Anatomy of a Smile (2009) and Call me Esteban (2015). The paper presents the autobiographical stories collected in the second book, in which the most important theme is death, especially the premature death of a mother. The aim of the article is to show the motive of the loss of a mother. The writer uses first-person narration and the protagonist is a woman named Lejla, a type of alter ego for her. The stories are written from different points of view and from different time perspectives. The intertextual themes in the book are the most interesting ones and have real artistic value (th…