Stories and restoring: narrative, techology and rituals of womanhood

Abstract

Although the challenges women have had to face in their attempt to create and circulate their intimate and public histories are much older than computers and informational highways, this paper will mostly focus on the ways women’s testimonies are mediated through the fictional and existential frames enabled by technology. The identification of women’s social self in Jelena Lengold’s Baltimore, will be, as a process that lavishly uses computer mediated communication, compared with the social and cultural reconstruction of motherhood in David Albahari’s novel Bait, and to the bleak dystopian confession of betrayal within the borders of an alienated technology-enhanced society in “The Gospel According to A Thirsty Woman” by Mirjana Novaković. The three novels are based on different kinds of women’s narratives, mediated through technology.