Representation of the Female Captivity Experience in Dragojla Jarnević's Short Story Victims of Love and Loyalty to the Homeland

The paper analyzes the representation of woman's wartime captivity experience in the short story Victims of Love and Loyalty to the Homeland, published in the collection Homeland's Tales (1843) by the Croatian roman-tic writer Dragojla Jarnević. It is a short story in which the Croat-Ottoman war conflicts in the 17th century are thematized, and the paper explores how the representation of woman's captivity experience was adapted to the national-political goals of the Croatian National Revival and Romanticism, including representations of female heroism and sacrifice, mechanisms of potential female resistance and the question of the (in)compatibility of family, maternal and homeland duties.