scholarly journals “WOMEN’ WRITING” AS AN AREA OF DISCOURSIVE, GENRE AND NARRATIVE CONFLICTS (A CASE STUDY OF GERMAN-LANGUAGE FEMALE PROSE OF THE LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURY)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-47
Author(s):  
Aleksandra V. Eliseeva
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
German Language ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Third ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Women’S Writing ◽  
Structural Cracks

The paper focuses on the phenomenon of “women’s writing”, a discussion about which began in the 1970s. Based on Elaine Showalter’s concept of “doubled-voiced discourse” as well as on Franco Moretti’s theory of literary forms development from the center to the periphery, which generates unstable compromises in the structure, its “cracks” and gaps, the article offers an interpretation of “women’s writing” as an area of increased conflict. The case study of three literary works of the late XIX – early XX century written in German language – Elsa Asenijeff’ essay “Women’s Riot and the Third Sex” (1898), Lou Andreas-Salomé’s novella “Fenitchka” (1898) and Minna Wettstein-Adelt’s novel “Are These Women? A Novel about the Third Sex” (1901) – demonstrates conflicts of discourses, genres and narrative strategies unfolding in these texts. The paper suggests the idea that such structural “cracks” and contradictions mark the departure from the boundaries and limits of contemporary patriarchal discourses and the dominant literary system.

De cultuurhistorische waarde van de literatuur

1970 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Lies Wesseling
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Post War ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Specific Expertise

This article probes the extent to which literary history and cultural history may mutuallyilluminate each other, without neglecting the poetic dimension of literary works. Thispoetic dimension is embedded within the genre repertoires that shape the production andreception of literary works. One should therefore take into close account that the literaryrepresentation of social conflict is always deflected by the prism of genre conventions.Focusing on the case study of the Dutch Gothic novel, I argue that Gothic tales provide aspecific take on the post-war modernization of the Netherlands. As such, they make avaluable contribution to historical debates about the periodization of the sixties andseventies, not in spite of, but because of their specific poetic properties. Thus, it is verywell possible to bring literary works to bear upon the discussion of historical issueswithout either infringing upon the relative autonomy of the literary system or neglectingthe specific expertise of literary studies as a discipline in its own rights.

Off to the Pictures: Cinema, Fiction and Interwar Culture

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Stead
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
Film Reception ◽  
Women’S Writing ◽  
Interwar Britain

The chapter outlines the critical and contextual foundations for the case study chapters that follow, establishing in greater depth the three interlocking contexts of moviegoing, print culture and modernity in interwar Britain. It offers an overview of the interrelationship between key framing contexts that inform the coordinates of the study, considering British cinema culture alongside the interwar publishing industry for women’s writing, read in relation to the changing texture of women’s everyday lives in British modernity alongside a more detailed consideration of the intersections between critical explorations of film reception and intermediality.

scholarly journals From a double margin: Anglophone translation of women's writing from Croatia and Serbia

Reci, Beograd ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Sibelan Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Women’S Writing

This article examines Anglophone translations of women's writing from Eastern Europe with particular focus on writers from Croatia and Serbia. After outlining the presences and absences of these women writers in Anglophone translations, it raises some questions about the significance of gender in literary canon formation and the emergence of literary works into a global context through translation.

Tassibee: a case study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalida Luqman
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Dental Services ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Women’S Writing

This chapter present excerpts of writing and reflections by three participants who regularly attended the Tassibee (a local charity) programmes: Nasim Bashir, Fazelat Begum, and Mukhtar Begum. They detail the previous lives of the first generation of women who came to the UK from Pakistan in the 1960s. These women's writing reflects memories of life prior to arriving in the UK, at which point everything changed for them. The different cultural lifestyle in the UK was not something that the women could ever have imagined. They found it hard to adapt to the British weather, and experienced difficulties with accessing services, including health and dental services, and social support in terms of provision (available only if you had the skills to access it).

Gender, love and recognition in I Love Dick and The Other Woman

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050682199591
Author(s):  
Camilla Schwartz ◽  
Rita Felski
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Sex Identification ◽  
The Other ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Other Woman ◽  
Women’S Writing

How might the idea of recognition offer a fresh slant on contemporary women’s writing? In this essay, we bring theories of recognition into dialogue with two literary works: Chris Kraus’s widely reviewed memoir I Love Dick and The Other Woman by the well-regarded Swedish novelist Therese Bohman. Our analysis focuses on recognition within the texts as well as its relevance to relations between texts and readers. We seek to clarify how attitudes to heterosexual love, feminism and same-sex identification are entangled and the broader implications of such entanglements. We are interested in how the protagonists engage the world as readers and the role of literature in shaping their identifications and attachments. Yet, a comparative analysis can also bring to light how a feminist habitus is predicated on class and education, suggesting that these two texts may invite rather different experiences of recognition.

scholarly journals Chronotopic Narratives of Seven Gurus and Eleven Texts: A Medieval Buddhist Community of Female Tāntrikas in the Swat Valley of Pakistan

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Ulrich Timme Kragh
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Religious Poetry ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Buddhist Literature ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Swat Valley ◽  
Women’S Writing

Modern South Asian women’s writing wells up to the stirring surface of contemporary literature in now globally recognizable forms of fiction and memoir, inter alia, the novel, the poem, the biography, the autobiography. Yet, beneath these topmost layers of colonial and post-colonial literary tides flow undercurrents of precolonial women’s writing, often in radically other figurations of lettered expression. Even further down than the familiar temporal strata of the Vaiṣṇavite and Śaivite religious poetry written by the dozen authoresses ranging from Muktābāi to Rūpa Bhavānī between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, there exists another place in the deep, like an underwater lake, of a much older women’s writing penned by Tantric women gurus. The majority of this archaic Buddhist literature streamed out of the Swat valley in Pakistan, a locality for no less than seven known female gurus, who lived, taught, or wrote there between the eighth and eleventh centuries. After a short prologue on Swat and its recent history, the essay surveys eleven female-authored medieval Tantric works, which range in genre from ritual treatises, meditation practice-texts, and mystic poems, to literary forms that even seem evocative of contemporary women’s gendered voices: spiritual biography and autobiography empowered by a place.

scholarly journals PROBLEMATIKA DUNIA KEPENGARANGAN SASTRA JAWA PERIODE 1980—1997: SEBUAH STUDI KASUS (Problems of Javanese Literary Authorship World in the Period of 1980—1997: A Case Study)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Dhanu Priyo Prabowo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Condition ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Sociological Method ◽  
Literary Authorship ◽  
Literary System

Dunia kepengarangan sastra Jawa periode 1980—1997 ditopang oleh media berbahasa Jawa (koran dan majalah). Kehadiran institusi itu ternyata mampu memberikan kontribusi yang sangat luas terhadap sistem kesastraan Jawa. Kenyataan ini menunjukkan bahwa institusi-institusi itu telah mampu menggeser peranan penerbit buku. Di tengah situasi seperti itu, pengarang Jawa menggunakan nama samaran perempuan untuk memertahankan eksistensinya (ekonomis dan popularitas). Usaha tersebut ternyata dapat memperteguh sikap para pengarang sastra Jawa dalam memertahankan sastra Jawa, walaupun keadaan ekonomi para pengarang sastra Jawa sangat kecil jumlahnya jika dibandingkan dengan pengarang sastra Indonesia. Sastra Jawa sebagai sastra daerah di Indonesia tetap dapat dipertahankan ekistensi oleh para para pengarang baru dan pengarang lama. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori makro sastra dari Ronald Tanaka. Dengan teori itu, penelitian ini dapat mengungkapkan dunia kepengarangan sastra Jawa pada periode 1980—1997. Adapun metode sosiologis dalam penelitian dipergunakan untuk memahami secara komprehensif persoalan di dalam dunia sastra Jawa periode 1980—1997.Abstract:Javanese literary authorship world in the period of 1980-1997  supported by Javanese media (newspaper and magazine). The presence of the instituation was able to give a broader contribution to Javanese literary system. The fact showed that the institutions had been able to shift the role of book’s publisher. In the midst of such a situation, the Javanese authors wrote under pseudonyms to maintain their existence (economic and popularity). The effort  was able to rein- force the literary Javanese  authors’ attitude in preserving the Javanese literature despite the economic condition in this period that made their payment for their works very small when com- pared to Indonesian literary authors’ payment. The existence of Javanese literature as regional literary works  in Indonesia can still be maintained by new  and  old authors. The present study applies the  Ronald Tanaka’s literary macro theory. By using the theory, the research tries to  reveal the world of Javanese literary authorship  in the period of 1980—1997.  The sociological method of the research is used to understand problems comprehensively in Javanese literary world in the period of 1980—1997.

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