Gargašanje: Resistance and carnivalesqueness in the collection of poetry Gola psovačica BY Bisera Alikadić

Abstract

The paper analyzes the collection of poetry Gola psovačica (2022) by Bisera Alikadić. Bakhtin's concept of carnival and reading strategy in a feminist key will serve us as a starting theoretical framework in the analysis and interpretation of Bisera Alikadić's poetry. The naked cursing woman speaks without a mask, she plays Lacrdiac, aware of her position of otherness in culture, with irony and self-irony she deconstructs and unmasks not only the patriarchal social order and its hierarchy of power, but also her own position and place of speech. The voice of the other in culture, with carnival forms and language, masquerade and swearing as special speech genres, produces a carnival atmosphere, destroying and regenerating at the same time. Street-ridiculous folk culture and ambivalent laughter, mocking, subversive and restorative, in the collection of poetry Gola psovačica raises awareness of various social inequalities and opposes the patterns of patriarchal culture, its mysticism and dogma.