Each year, the Division of Arts and Humanities celebrates its faculty who have recently been promoted to the rank of professor by asking each to present a public lecture on his or her body of research or creative activity and current projects.
Yana Hashamova, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
“War Rapes: Redefining Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Nationhood”
Based on Slavenka Drakulic’s S. A Novel about the Balkans (1999) and Jasmila Zbanic’s Esma’s Secret (2006), this paper considers the horrors of war rapes and their consequences for a generation of women who were forced to experience motherhood under transgressive circumstances, the mytho-creation of fatherhood, and the new(old) face of nationhood in Bosnia.
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