Author: Aida Džiho-Šator, Fakultet humanističkih nauka (Faculty of Humanities), Univerzitet „Džemal Bijedić“ u Mostaru (University Džemal Bijedić of Mostar)- Academia.edu, Google Scholar, ResearchGate

Abstract: »This paper analyzes the novel The Screeching of Skin (2023) by Amile Kahrović Posavljak from the perspective of the theory of trauma, gender-based violence and war rape and classifies it primarily as a memorial novel or a novel of memorialization literature, with the pretension of turning it into a textual and artistic monument to the victims of suffering and persecution in the collective memory. The novel follows a twenty-year-old girl, a second-year violin student at the Academy of Music, who finds herself in her apartment in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Grbavica at the beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and immediately after the neighborhood was cut off from the rest of Sarajevo, she falls into the hands of Serbian soldiers who subject her to multiple rapes and other forms of violence. The paper establishes a theoretical framework within which the novel will be analyzed, offers an overview of important aspects of trauma theory, an insight into the issue of rape in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995, after which it focuses on a careful reading and analysis of the content, but also on the literary techniques of portraying trauma used in the novel, such as the narration, the narrator, the shaping of music motifs in the novel and the significant ending of the novel.« (Source: Društvene i humanističke studije)

Contents:

	Uvod (p. 234)
	Ratno silovanje i rodno nasilje (p. 234)
	Teorija traume (p. 237)
	Književni postupci reprezentacije traume (p. 239)
	Zaključak (p. 250)
	Izvor (p. 251)
	Literatura (p. 251)
	Internetski izvori (p. 253)
	Summary (p. 254)

Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina | Literature: Literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sex and the law: Rape / Wartime sexual violence | War: Bosnian War / Rape during the Bosnian War