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In the study by Kristina Peternai Andric and Ivana Zuzul, the questions of identity and representation, which have been constantly raised in the study of literature in recent decades, while the answers to them have nevertheless persistently eluded them, are understood as a hermeneutic perspective that encourages reading, rather than as a prescriptive heuristic mold that controls meanings. Since their starting point is the modern understanding of literary writing as the representation of the unpresentable, which implies a principled rejection of any uniformity of representation and any form of interpretative essentialism, they show, using a series of examples that are diverse in every respect, that not only all identities, and consequently all representations, but especially the experience of reader interpretation, are crucially determined by the ambivalence of denotation and the contingency of connotations, the multiplicity of aspects and the fragmentation of meaning, and especially the inextricable interweaving of (auto)referential relations. Thanks to a clear awareness of the processual (and not procedural) nature of the text, which is created by a permanent feedback loop of writing and reading (rather than an unequivocal causal sequence), both the characters shaped by the narration, with all their respective discursive birthplaces, and the author herself are shown to be disobedient.
