Woman and ideologies: feminist poetics of Alexandra Berková

U suvremenim raspravama o identitetu prevladavaju dvije struje – esencijalistička i konstruktivistička. U ovom radu polazim od teorije identiteta kao konstrukta, oblikovanog društvenim praksama i individualnim uvjerenjima na primjeru stvaralaštva češke spisateljice Alexandre Berkove u kontekstu njenog tretmana ženskog identiteta na pozadini različitih ideologija – feminističke i socijalističke. Ta je autorica u svojim pojedinačnim prozama odustajala od komentara društvenih prilika kako bi propitala egzistenciju ženskih subjekata u privatnom prostoru, zatim je na primjeru konstrukcije ženskih identiteta upozorila na opasnosti vladajuće državne ideologije, da bi se u konačnici ponovo vratila privatnom, intimnom prostoru. U radu ću propitati prisutnost osobne i društvene ideologije u književnom tekstu te utvrditi specifičan razvojni put jedne individualne autorske poetike.In contemporary theory identity is mainly seen as either essential or constructed. This paper is based on the prerequisite that identity is constructed and shaped by social norms, as well as by individual beliefs. The author explores this hypothesis by analysing the works of Czech writer Alexandra Berková, whose literary treatment of female identity is highly influenced by her attitudes towards feminism and socialism. In her first text she sustains from commenting on social affairs in order to explore female identities as they occur in private sphere. She then proceeded in a different manner and used the process of construction of female identity to comment on serious drawbacks and dangers of state socialist ideology. In the end, she returned to private, intimate themes, and male-female relations. In this paper the author explores the existence of personal and social ideology in the literary text and traces a formative path of Berková’s individual poetics