ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2007.
Autor: Domaći
Jezik: Engleski

Jasmina Tešanović NEFERTITI JE BILA OVDE

Centar za ženske studije i istraživanje roda, Beograd, 2007.
112 strana.

Veoma očuvana.


NEFERTITI WAS HERE

She sat on the bank of the river Nile like any common peasant woman. Her
feet were in the water, her hands were bare, absorbing the sun on a chilly
winter day. Her thoughts went everywhere...

Her life had come to a turning point, not by her own choice or timing: but
she had taken action. Women hate that kind of compulsion, to act
unnaturally, against a lifetime`s proper times and rhythms, but they do it
efficiently and often irreversibly.

During all the years of her rule, her life had been at hazard every day,
every instant of her reign pitched against the world as it was. After
years of slow reaction against her Sun Power, the balance of forces had
toppled.

She had given the dynasty six daughters. After the third daughter, she
thought only of women in power: no fathers, no husbands, no sons. She bore
another three daughters, and not even her innermost self knew their father.
She simply refused to know, to follow any dates. Her life was full and
fulfilled; she entertained no hopes or expectations. Her future would be
one long strain not to let go. A life without a male heir to count on, but
with many men to fear. Another anomaly added to the many in her destiny.
Every day, at sunset, the auburn sunsets of the Nile, with yellow
reflections of dust, destiny conveyed its simple message to her: I have
survived another day in beauty, truth and heresy.

Her beauty combined truth and heresy. The inner truth of the Sun. The
outer power of the Sun. All the rest is fiction.

Sitting on the banks of Nile was the woman by the name of Nefertiti, the
most powerful woman in Amarna, the Solar Queen, consort of a deposed ruler,
bathing her legs and sunbathing her arms: long limbs, long head, tiny body.
Absolute beauty might be seen in her. She could be anybody.