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ownership of their own selves, words and lives. Many of them, who anchored
themselves in the feminist arena in sweeping strokes from this particular region,
namely the region of former Yugoslavia, passed away during the last two
decades. They were remarkable, well-known, courageous, ‘wild’, persistent and
creative women – sometimes mentioned within key feminist narratives but
more often placed within the footnotes or additional sources of knowledge of
local feminism(s).
The more I tried to draw attention to a critical analysis of feminist positioning
and feminist actions in particular periods of time, the more I was
overwhelmed by my own personal motifs, that is, the relationship between my
fragile Self and my close friends whom I carried with me and occupied with
deep and silent mourning, with the ideas, images, gestures or moments that
crystallised the meanings around/of loss. A few in memoriam pieces appearing
in feminist and alternative journals and magazines comprised my written response,
which at the same time preserved and sparked emotions witnessing
anger and pain. Žarana and Nirman strengthened my intent to undertake this
harsh and uncertain exploration; these two feminists whose existence remains
irreducible to knowledge but probably to the very paths of human epistemology.
The thought expressed by Irit Rogoff in her book Terra Infirma. Geography’s
Visual Culture that “(t)he moment in which loss is clearly marked and articulated
is also the moment in which something else, as yet unnamed, has come into
being” 1 came to me as a possibility to handle this inquiry with particular care.
1
Irit Rogoff, Terra Infirma. Geography’s visual culture (London and New York: Routledge, 2000) 3.
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