Portret matki w utworze Jasny Šamić Carstvo sjenki

Jasna Šamić belongs to the most interesting writers and represents women’s writing in Bosnia. From 1977 she has been living in Paris and Sarajevo, publishing various types of texts (poetry, novels, essays, short stories, plays) in French and Bosnian. The text is focused on the novel Carstvo sjenki and its vital topic: the relationship of mother and daughter. An important point of reference are the views of feminists of the second wave (Adrienne Rich, Luce Irigaray), because the subject of motherhood was particularly close to them. Jasna Šamić portrays the mother in retrospect, after her death. Particular attention is given to the last period of her life, when she was struggling with an incurable disease – Alzheimer’s disease, which eventually mastered her body and the soul, and had a real influence on the relations between the mother and the daughter, who gradually approach each other and eventually switch the roles.