
Hitherto anonymous writer Hristina Petkovic
Author(s) -
Bojan D. Djordjević
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
prilozi za književnost, jezik, istoriju i folklor
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0798
pISSN - 0350-6673
DOI - 10.2298/pkjif1480083d
Subject(s) - serbian , confession (law) , poetry , wife , poetics , literature , history , publishing , art , law , political science , philosophy , archaeology , linguistics
?The Belgrade Paper?, the organ of the Military General Government for Serbia, was issued from December 1915 to October 1918 and was the only periodical in occupied Serbia. After an initial hesitation, even some Serbian authors eventually accepted the cooperation with the journal, publishing their poetry and prose in it. Certain renowned names include Isidora Sekulic, Bora Stankovic, Milica Jankovic and Milorad Petrovic Seljancica. However, for the most part, its contributors came from the ranks of the so-called minor writers, and to some of them, the poems and short stories published in ?The Belgrade Paper? were the only works that they printed. Among them is also Hristina Petkovic, author of three short stories - Nina, Poverty and The Confession. An analysis of these stories can reveal that they essentially belong to the poetics of the so-called trivial literature, with pronouncedly amatory and partly social topics, especially focusing on the fate of the woman in collision with the patriarchal mentality. Owing to the archival materials from the Archive of Serbia and the Austrian State Archive, the paper demonstrates that the author is in fact the wife of Serbian poet Vladislav Petkovic Dis.