Mobilnost v avtobiografskih delih slovenskih, srbskih in hrvaških pisateljic iz prve polovice 20. stoletja

MOBILITY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TEXTS BY SLOVENIAN, SERBIAN, AND CROATIAN WOMEN WRITERS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY This paper discusses autobiographical texts from the first half of the 20th century written by the Slovenian authors Marica Strnad, Marica Gregorič Stepančič, and Marija Kmet; Serbian authors Isidora Sekulić and Jelena Dimitrijević; Croatian authors Marija Jurić Zagorka and Zdenka Marković; as well as authors with hybrid national identities – Alma M. Karlin and Zofka Kveder. All these writers created their works during a period when women were fighting for their rights; many of them were activists in the women’s movement, and their works address the “woman question.” Freedom of movement was a right that women began to assert during that time. The emancipation processes of women in the Slavic Balkans were closely linked to the struggle for national liberation (from Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Italy). This paper examines various types of mobility (geographical, social, professional) not only as means of emancipation but also as ways of exploring and understanding one’s own limits. Women’s mobility contributed significantly to the formation of the female subject. The article is based on feminist theories of subjectivity that reject the patriarchal tradition of binary oppositions, where the male is positioned as a subject and the female as an object. Autofictional texts play a key role in the establishment of the female subject and its cultural representation.