Biljana Dojčinović Nešić



Dr Biljana Dojčinović-Nešić (1963), assistant professor at the Department of Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade University in Serbia. Author of the books Ginokritika: Rod i proučavanje književnosti koju su pisale žene (Gynocriticism: Gender and the Women's Writing, 1993); Gradovi, sobe, portreti (Cities, Rooms, Portraits), a collection of essays on H. James, V. Woolf, C. Gilman, M. Atwood, J. Updike and K. Chopin; Genderings: Gendered Readings in Serbian Women's Writing (in English) and Kartograf modernog sveta: romani Džona Apdajka (Cartographer of the Modern World: John Updike's Novels). She is one of the founders of Belgrade Women's Studies Center (1992), and has been editor-in-chief of Genero, a journal in feminist theory, since 2002.






ABSTRACT
Forging, Milking, Delivering: Feminine and Maternal as Links Between A Portrait... and Ulysses

This paper will try to point that the readings of James Joyce's Ulysses as a son's quest for father and father's quest for a lost son oversee a very strong and important element of femaleness in this novel. In fact, the ties between A Portrait... and Ulysses are built upon the motifs of femaleness, mother at the first place. Mother figure is inscribed in both novels in various nets of symbols, from the first sentence of the Portrait... all the way to the Molly's ecstatic inner speech. Other female figures appear merged one into another in Portrait and the technique of blurring the meaning and shapes stays very important in Ulysses. The paper will take into account a number of "gendered" readings of both novels.