In this paper we research the layers of the inscription of femininity in the popular, fantastic and political prose of Dubravka Ugre\u0161i\u0107. The relationship of the essentialist and\/or constructivist positions of observing the subject\/text\/body is decoded, reinterpreted and commented upon. Gender positioning and the shaping of a slippery identity is followed and interpreted by referring to Moya and Foucault. Emphasis is laid on the layers of utterances that refer to identity which have not been decoded in previous interpretations. A femininity inscribed in the novel \u0160tefica Cvek u raljama \u017eivota (\u0160tefica Cvek in the Jaws of Life) is detected; the author flirts with the popular (trivial) paradigm of femininity by presenting the stereotypes of femininity formed by \u2018the male perspective\u2019 of the national corpus of narratives. Simultaneously, the author lets us \u2018reiron the text\u2019, which leads us to the intertextuality of the fantastic prose \u017divot je bajka (Life is a Fairytale). Ministarstvo boli (Ministry of Pain) forms the ground for questioning identity in the texture of the exile\/emigrant. The model of identity is no longer deconstructed by the text; the main perpetrator of deconstruction becomes what was afore-denied \u2013 reality. Dealing with positioning of identity in the other milieu gives Croatian \u2018women\u2019s prose\u2019 a dimension it has not had until now. We can also see this in the novel Baba jaga je snijela jaje (Baba Yaga Has Laid an Egg), by which the author encircles the story of inscribing femininity within the popular and textual culture of the space she had left behind. While redefining some elements of textual intention in Ugre\u0161i\u0107\u2019s prose, we also redefine the place of this corpus in both Croatian literature and women\u2019s writing in Croatia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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