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Weapons of War: Mothering in Jasmila Žbanić’s Grbavica

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2024

Abstract

The chapter analyses Jasmila Žbanić's feature film Grbavica from a feminist intersectional perspective by drawing on feminist film studies pertaining to post-yugoslav women's cinema of trauma and by drawing on current research on raising children born of rape in post-war Balkan countries. The chapter offers various option for reading of Grbavica as a counterhegemonic representation of sexualized violence.