Ana Kocić Stanković
Biographic Data
| ID | 6423592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Kocić Stanković |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana Kocić |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanković |
| SIGNATURE | STANKOVIĆ A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4509-2776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘Tell your story’
The paper considers Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) and its peculiar technique as an example of resignification and a contemporary reworking of Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and American minstrel shows. The theoretical framework is based on Judith Butler’s idea of resignification and Eric Lott’s considerations of the notion of minstrelsy, highlighting the connections between the two. As the key aspect of both Everett’s novel and a …
American Women Writers and the Power of Representation
The paper focuses on the representation of women in several short stories by American women writers with a special emphasis on the notion of symbolic power or the power of representation. The theoretical framework is based on the works of cultural theorists such as Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay and their explanation and development of the notions of symbolic power and representation practices understood as the expressions of the power of words. Fur…
Hurting and Healing
The paper considers Ocean Vuong’s critically acclaimed novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) as both a representation of the Vietnamese American immigrant experience and an experiment in narrative form. The main argument is that Vuong’s narrative style, based on uncertainty, fragmentation, and fluidity, reflects the idea of cultural identity as an ever-changing process constituted within representation. We align our reading of the novel wi…
Gothic Elements in Representations of a Pandemic
The paper deals with the Gothic elements in the representation of a pandemic based on the 1983 novel Besnilo (‘Rabies’) by Serbian author Borislav Pekic. The authors start from the premise that the elements ‘borrowed’ from the Gothic genre play a key role in creating the main plot of the novel: a catastrophe caused by an extremely contagious and deadly man-manipulated version of the rabies virus. The theoretical framework is based on Fred Botting…
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Gothic Elements in Representations of a Pandemic
The paper deals with the Gothic elements in the representation of a pandemic based on the 1983 novel Besnilo (‘Rabies’) by Serbian author Borislav Pekic. The authors start from the premise that the elements ‘borrowed’ from the Gothic genre play a key role in creating the main plot of the novel: a catastrophe caused by an extremely contagious and deadly man-manipulated version of the rabies virus. The theoretical framework is based on Fred Botting…
American Women Writers and the Power of Representation
The paper focuses on the representation of women in several short stories by American women writers with a special emphasis on the notion of symbolic power or the power of representation. The theoretical framework is based on the works of cultural theorists such as Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay and their explanation and development of the notions of symbolic power and representation practices understood as the expressions of the power of words. Fur…
Hurting and Healing
The paper considers Ocean Vuong’s critically acclaimed novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) as both a representation of the Vietnamese American immigrant experience and an experiment in narrative form. The main argument is that Vuong’s narrative style, based on uncertainty, fragmentation, and fluidity, reflects the idea of cultural identity as an ever-changing process constituted within representation. We align our reading of the novel wi…
‘Tell your story’
The paper considers Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) and its peculiar technique as an example of resignification and a contemporary reworking of Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and American minstrel shows. The theoretical framework is based on Judith Butler’s idea of resignification and Eric Lott’s considerations of the notion of minstrelsy, highlighting the connections between the two. As the key aspect of both Everett’s novel and a …
Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Adventure (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Literature and Humor Studies (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work)