Put od crvene cigle: An Anti-Patriarchal Discourse

Marijana Čanak's prose collection "Put od crvene cigle" organizes itself around menstruation and its cyclical phases, treated as a symbol of female vitality rather than weakness. The review admires the coherent, skillful writing and its subversion of patriarchal demands, noting how the female characters emerge as stronger and more dominant. It tempers the praise by observing that the persistent framing of women as victims and men as aggressors can feel limiting.

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