FEMINISM IN NOVEL KAMEN NA CESTI BY ZAGORKA

Marija Jurić Zagorka, osim kao novinarka književnica, poznata je i po tome što se žestoko borila za ženska prava, a zahvaljujući svom radu prozvana je i jednom od prvih hrvatskih feministica. Ideju o ravnopravnosti žena provlačila je i kroz svoje romane, konstruirajući ženske likove koji su odbijali pokoriti se nametnutim društvenim normama. U ovom radu prikazuje se upravo jedan takav ženski lik, Mirjana Grgić, protagonistica romana Kamen na cesti. Mirjana je, kao što je bila i sama Zagorka, žena ispred svog vremena. Ona je žena koja se želi osamostaliti, koja se želi boriti za svoju domovinu, ali na svom putu suočena je s brojnim preprekama iz jednog jedinog razloga – rođena je kao žena u vremenu kada je samostalnost bila privilegija muškarca.Marija Juric Zagorka, other than being a journalist and a writer, is also known for having fought for women's rights, and thanks to her work we now see her as one of the first Croatian feminists. The idea of women's equality is a common theme in her novels, constructing female characters who have refused to submit to imposed social norms. In this paper the author attempts to portray such a character, Mirjana Grgic, the protagonist of the novel Kamen na cesti. Mirjana, not unlike Zagorka, was a woman ahead of her time. She is a woman who wants to become independent, who wants to fight for her country, but on the way is faced with many obstacles for only one reason – she was born as a woman at a time when freedom was the privilege of men