History, Identity and Diversity in Serbian Women's Writing

In the first part of this article the author explores definitions of identity and diversity, as well as of history and writing. In the second part, the problematic relationship between history and literature is presented from the perspective of literary theory. In the third part, several examples are cited in order to demonstrate that texts written by Serbian women writers have presented diverging views on historical events and have also been open to historical interpretations which demand diverse points of view.