Časopis Ženski pokret u debati o (post)jugoslovenskoj književnosti

Abstract

Oslanjajući se na mogućnosti koje istraživačicama i istraživačima pruža ne samo digitalizacija časopisne građe, već i prostor digitalne humanistike u kome se u novoj „trećoj dimenziji” povezuju udaljeni prostor i vreme i u njima proizvođeni tekstovi, u tekstu se pokušava dopuniti, a na neki način i problematizovati već skoro dve decenije duga debata o postjugoslovenskoj književnosti. Prateći diskurs časopisa Ženski pokret i njegove varijante u različitim novinarskim i teorijskim prilozima u periodu od desetak godina (približno 1920–1930), može se raspoznati tipologija jugoslovenske kulture i književnosti koja je, kao i ovaj časopis u celini, ostala izvan dominantnih književnoistorijskih i književnoteorijskih matrica. Ovakvom analizom Ženski pokret se upisuje u istoriju (post)jugoslovenske književnosti, još jednom otkrivajući njene feminističke principe, ali i teorijske koncepcije oko kojih se i dalje pregovara, a koje su bivale artikulisane još na stranicama ovog časopisa. Tako postaje moguće čitanje ovog trenutka postjugoslovenske sadašnjosti kroz Ženski pokret kao prvi feministički, teorijski i jugoslovenski orijentisan časopis.

The apparatus of digital humanities, accompanied by a “temporal turn” in the studies of literature and culture stirred the analysis of the Women’s Movement periodical as a forerunner or vanguard discourse of this literature. The periodical’s articles, in which the issues of literally and cultural Yugoslavism, feminism, female authorship, class and socio-economic issues, the feminist public and finally female, feminine and feminist writing are discussed, are interpreted to support attempts to define and conceptualize post-Yugoslav literary discourse itself. The fact that Women’s Movement was not a strictly literary periodical has been linked to the concept – necessary for post-Yugoslav literature – of the literary field (Bourdieu), and further to the critical question of the autonomy of art. In this way the paradoxical proposal from the title of this essay, to include the texts from the 1920s and 1930s into the debate referring to literature produced almost a hundred years later, becomes in fact a necessary undertaking. Reading Women’s Movement today is an exploration of the early 20th century and its discourse which existed beyond the dominant theoretical matrices. That is why revisiting it initiates the archaeological research of the present. By finding textual and literary evidence for a different understanding of Yugoslavism – as a feeling of identity and a cultural concept inseparable from feminism – but also different understanding of culture generally, post-Yugoslav literature could be seen as a part of that feminist, affinity-based and pluralist community envisaged in the periodical Women’s Movement.