Naslov
Voiceless women: the right to rebellion in Croatian 19th century literature between liberalism and nationalism

Autori
Badurina, Natka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective: Voicing Feminist Concerns

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 26.05.2008. - 30.05.2008

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
feminist literary criticism; the Croatian Illyrian movement; rape and the right to uprising

Sažetak
Natka Badurina reflects on the motif of the rape of women as an excuse for the community’ s (political) right to a revolutionary uprising. This is a frequent motif in European Romanticism, and it was embraced by the Croatian Illyrian movement and patriotic literature writers in the theme of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1573 (a tragedy by M. Bogović in 1859 ; a novel by A. Šenoa in 1877 ; a drama by M. Jurić Zagorka in 1903) with obsessive variations of the endangered virginity of the country-girls whose abduction and/or rape causes the righteous and pure revolt of the oppressed. By giving her female character a central part in the story, Zagorka obviously made a substantial move forward in her censored and unpublished play Evica Gupčeva (1903).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

POVEZANOST RADA