FOLKLORNI OBRAZAC ŽENE RATNICE I OSVETNICE U KNJIŽEVNOSTI SRPSKOG ROMANTIZMA

Abstract

The subject of the paper is the folklore pattern of female warriors and avengers reshaped in the works of Serbian romanticism. Through the analysis of the romantic poems, as well as an insight into the oral literary spheres from which the pattern was taken and decontextualized, it was observed that the figure of the warrior woman, the dividing girl, and the avenger, is often repeated in a new poetic and genre context, but is brought to extreme limits of transformation, primarily due to the impossibility of returning to the sphere of female identity. In this way, the gender perspective of the oral text and the literary text is followed, that is, the presence and (dis) integration of the “female principle” in the presented plot model. While the folklore pattern confirms the so-called female principle, requiring only a temporary self-annihilation, the negation of the self, of femininity, in order to give birth to a new identity, so far on the horizon of romantic creativity, such a return is variable depending on genre and poetic settings.