A Muzzle for Witches

Dubravka Ugresic, Ellen Elias-Bursać

• Publisher: Open Letter
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781960385253
• eBook ISBN: 9781960385260
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature

As with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragi?, covering topics such as "Women and the Male Perspective, " "The Culture of (Self)Harm, " and "The Melancholy of Vanishing."

But the book is more than a simple interview: It's a roadmap of the literary world, exploring the past century and all of its violence and turmoil—especially in Yugoslavia, Ugresic's birth country—and providing a direction for the future of feminist writing.

One of the greatest thinkers of the past hundred years, Ugresic was one-of-a-kind, who novels and literary essays pushed the bounds of form and content, and A Muzzle for Witches offers the chance to see her at her most raw, and most playful.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• A deformed perspective
• Women and the male perspective
• The implanting of cultural memes
• A resistance movement?!
• The culture of (self)harm
• Map to map—mapping
• The melancholy of vanishing
• Acknowledgments