FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM AND GYNOCRITICISM DURING THE PERIOD 1990-2010

This paper aims to sketch out the history of women's and gender studies in Serbia by particularly emphasizing the development of feminist literary criticism during the period 1990-2010. The generation of feminist literary critics represented by Biljana Dojcinovic, Dubravka Duric, Svetlana Slapsak, Tatjana Rosic, Vladislava Gordic-Petkovic and Biljana Lukic contributed to this development both by theory and activism during the war and post-war period and the economic circumstances of transition. It is by publishing feminist journals, translating feminist knowledge, providing new original frameworks for literary criticism, founding various women's studies centers and associations, organizing lectures and conferences and exploring potentials of digital humanities in both local and global academic and alternative spheres that these critics pointed out the existence of women's literary tradition, redefined the canon and encouraged women-oriented and gender-centered critical approaches in literary studies in Serbia.