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While same-sex desires, gender non-conformity, and attempts to gather based on these traits are commonly connected with the post-socialist times during which the EU came to the defense of oppressed gays and lesbians in the East, Balkan queer culture dates back to the late 19th, rather than late 20th century. This presentation engages with modernist queer literature in Serbia and Croatia.

I argue that imported sexological theories and psychoanalytic articulations of torturous desire encountered well-established forms of transgressions, such as delija girls (cross-dressing warriors) and Ottomans inclined toward their own sex. Along with being culturally hybrid, the corpus I will discuss, four novels and two oeuvres, articulate common motifs found in later gay and lesbian narratives: love triangles, emigration, cross-dressing, obfuscation, and use of slang. As such they are the starting point of Queer Encounters, my doctoral research focused on post-socialist queer prose in Croatia and Serbia.

This event will take place in person and will also be livestreamed online:聽

About the speaker:

I hold a master鈥檚 degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Zagreb (2019). In 2021, I graduated with a master鈥檚 degree in Critical Gender Studies from Central European University. I am currently a PhD student at SSEES.

My essay on the gay struggle for adoption in Croatia is included in Springer鈥檚 2022 collection Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places, and my analysis of women鈥檚 literature in socialist Yugoslavia will be published as a part of Dacoromania litteraria鈥檚 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Life Writing in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe鈥� project. My main academic interests are queer theory, gay and lesbian literature, and social movements in Southeastern Europe.

Image credit: Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb