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- Title
„ДВОГЛАВО БИЋЕ, РУМЕНО ОД СМРЗНУТЕ КРВИ": ФИЗИОЛОГИЈА И РАТ У САВРЕМЕНОЈ ПРОЗИ
- Authors
Петковић, Владислава С. Гордић
- Abstract
Any attempt at the portrayal of war in literature has to consider the situations and scenes that test the characters' moral strength and ethical decisions, as well as the ensuing psychological effects once the war experience is over. The post-war traumas, the physical and emotional devastation, the brutal effects of war on survivors as well as the rise of brutality as a post-war effect and a lasting consequence affect the individual characters. The body in war has been a topic that has not been thoroughly investigated, although it raises many complex issues due to controversial approach to the human body in ancient and recent theories alike. According to Elizabeth Grosz, the body has been a conceptual blind spot in both Western philosophical thought and contemporary feminist theory, implicitly defined as unruly and merely incidental to the defining characteristics of mind, reason and identity. Philosophy has established itself as a form of knowing only through the disawoval of the body and exclusion of femininity. Misogynist thought justified women's secondary social positions by constructing their bodies as imperfect, frail and subject to processes escaping conscious control, еspecially in the context of abrupt social change. The novels by the authors who once belonged to Yugoslav literature, Aleksandar Tišma and Slobodan Šnajder, provide a glimpse into the post-war world, but mostly focus on the survivors who relive the retroactive horror and come to terms with the society's collective memory. Tišma observes the victims of the Second World War and their disenchantment with a scarcity of empathy and an almost scientific objectivity, whereas Šnajder endows the voice of the unborn with the power to record and witness the dismal situations the main character Kempf, the Wafen SS conscript, is subjected to. Chris Abani, Kristian Novak and Juris Hudolin deal with the violent body in different ways, but they all project the society's traumas and concerns on it.
- Subjects
COLLECTIVE memory; ABANI, Christopher, 1966-; SOCIAL status; HUMAN body; SOCIAL change; DISILLUSIONMENT
- Publication
Nasleđe, 2019, Issue 43, p173
- ISSN
1820-1768
- Publication type
Article