NARRATIVE STRATEGIES IN PORTRAYING CHARACTERS WITH DISORDERS IN THE SERBIAN NOVEL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Text topic: Crisis of Narrative

Text author: Драгољуб Ж. Перић

This paper considers different narrative strategies and manners of modelling characters with various disorders as the “other” in the Serbian novel at the beginning of 21st century, in the context of the post-postmodernist poetics and the post-structural (Foucauldian-deconstructionist) interpretative paradigm. Even though at first glance it seems that such interest of novelists provides proof for a crisis of narration exhausted in an interest in the bizarre, the case is quite the opposite. The results show that the differences of this kind in the novels in question are depicted not as stigmatization, but as a struggle for the right of having one’s own identity, regardless of the fact it does not meet the normative identity standards.