The lecture will be dedicated to the emancipatory politics of literature and public engagement in order to actualize neglected female authors, their participation in the Yugoslav modernization processes, their contribution to literary production and improvement of civil, labor and political status of women. Understanding modernization processes from the perspective of female authorship aims to compare and redefine the effects and significance of their engagement for the interwar cultural context.

Zlatan Delić (Martin Luther University, Germany) literary scholar and PhD student from Berlin. Fields of his research interest include literary theory, women authorship, gender and cultural studies.

This lecture is held as part of the UNIGEM project, which is coordinated by the TPO Foundation from Sarajevo.