The Novels “Clay”, “Heart“, “Thread“ – Generator of Postmodern and Post-feminist Ideas in Contemporary Bulgarian Popular Literature

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The Novels “Clay”, “Heart“, “Thread“ – Generator of Postmodern and Post-feminist Ideas in Contemporary Bulgarian Popular Literature

Orieta Antova

CHPSIM “Acatamus – Sofia”, Bulgaria

etiantova@abv.bg

 

The object of the present study will be the novels of Victoria Beshliyska – “Clay”, “Heart”, “Thread”. An attempt is made to find in them the elements of female identity that generate postmodern and post-feminist ideas in contempo- rary Bulgarian popular novelist. At the same time, the possibility of integrating popular literature with so-called “high” literature is illustrated.

Keywords: novel, post-feminism, postmodernism, female identity

For citation: Antova, O. The Novels “Clay”, “Heart”, “Thread” – Generator of Postmodern and Post-feminist Ideas in Contemporary Bulgarian Popular Lite- rature. // The Literature, Year XVIII, 2024, Issue 33. Sofia: Univerisity Press “St. Kliment Ohridski”. (In Bulgarian)

 

About the author: Orieta Antova graduated in Bulgarian Philology in 1989, and in 2018 she completed her MA in Literature, Film and Visual Culture. She also has a postgraduate degree in Theatre Studies. She has published articles in periodicals and specialized publications in the field of culture (theatre, cinema, literature).

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