Naslov
О матрифокальном мифе о русской женщине (в литературных произведениях И. Грековой, Н. Баранской и Л. Петрушевской
(On the Matrifocal Myth of “the Russian Woman” in the Fiction of Irina Grekova, Natal’ia Baranskaia and Liudmila Petrushevskaia)

Autori
Lugarić, Danijela

Izvornik
Russian literature (0304-3479) 108-108C (2019); 207-237

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
матрифокальный миф, образ русской женщины, И. Грекова, Н. Баранская, Л. Петрушевская, повествовательная идентичность, субъект, тело
(mother myth, image of Russian woman, I. Grekova, N. Baranskaya, L. Petrushevskaya, narrative identity, subject, body)

Sažetak
This paper focuses on late-socialist interpretations of a prominent myth in Russian cultural history: the matrifocal myth of "the Russian woman" in the journal Rabotnitsa and the novels The Ladies' Hairdresser (Damskii master, 1963) by Irina Grekova, A Week Like Any Other (Nedelia kak nedelia, 1969) by Natal'ia Baran-skaia, and Night Time (Vremia noch', 1992) by Liudmila Petrushevskaia. Following the development and articulation of the matrifocal myth through diachronic and synchronic perspectives, the article builds on the cultural history of myth ; Ma-linowski and Blumenberg's functionalist theory of myth ; and Butler's performative gender and its subversive dialectics. The author argues that the above-mentioned texts deconstruct the Other, the unknown of the matrifocal myth, and at the same time use it to structure the narrative identity of the protagonist: the mother-woman. The narrative identity-the image of the woman, the "I" of the represented world-is constructed with self- abnegation/absence/disappearance/death. In other words, the void is a constituent part of this image or the unavoidable centre of its existence. Central to the paper are the following questions: What is distinctive about the myth as a discursive practice, especially in its dialogue with fiction? What is the subject’s position therein? And how is the myth “transformed” into fiction?

Izvorni jezik
Rus

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost, Rodni studiji

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