Post-War Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 577
Author(s):  
Brigid Haines ◽  
Chris Weedon
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Post War ◽  
Women’S Writing

The symbolic survival of the “living dead”: Narrating the LTTE female fighter in post-war Sri Lankan women’s writing

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-398
Author(s):  
Birte Heidemann
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
Post War ◽  
Literary Portrait ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Female Fighters ◽  
The Military ◽  
Women’S Writing

This article examines the lingering presence of the female militant figure in post-war Sri Lankan women’s writing in English. Through a careful demarcation of the formal–aesthetic limits of engaging with the country’s competing ethno-nationalisms, the article seeks to uncover the gendered hierarchies of Sri Lanka’s civil war in two literary works: Niromi de Soyza’s autobiography Tamil Tigress (2011) and Nayomi Munaweera’s debut novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors (2012). The reading draws attention to the writers’ attempt to “historise” the LTTE female fighter and/or suicide bomber within Sri Lanka’s complex colonial past and its implications for the recent history of conflict. The individual motives of the female fighters to join the LTTE, the article contends, remain ideologically susceptible to, if not interpellated by, the gendered hierarchies both within the military movement and Tamil society at large. A literary portrait of such entangled hierarchies in post-war Sri Lankan texts, the article reveals, helps expose the hegemonic (male) discourses of Sri Lankan nationalism that tend to undermine the war experiences of women.

Postwar Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 661
Author(s):  
Paula Hanssen ◽  
Chris Weedon
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Women’S Writing

Post-War Jewish Women's Writing in French

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-38
Author(s):  
Lucille Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Post War ◽  
Women’S Writing

scholarly journals Polskie pisarstwo kobiet w wieku XX – projekt syntezy

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-154
Author(s):  
Ewa Kraskowska
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Post War ◽  
Condition Of Women ◽  
Women’S Writing

Summary This article deals with the methodological problems involved in constructing a history of women’s writing. It also presents an outline history of women’s writing in Poland and a review of the state of research in that field. Although women’s writing is an integral part of Polish literature, the author argues that its development is influenced by specific factors which determine the cultural and social condition of women in a given historical time. Consequently, the periodization of women’s writing should take into account criteria and divisions which do not always coincide with the customary reference points of the mainstream literary history. The author also compiles a list of some specific problems of the historiography of Polish women’s writing which require more focused attention on the part of researchers, ie. the phenomenon of the second-rank female writer, subgenres of women’s writing, and the work of female writers from the interwar period, who continued to write in the post-war Poland.

Women’s Fiction after the War

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Sage
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Women's Fiction ◽  
World War ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World ◽  
Women’S Writing

This chapter looks at the complexities of post-war women’s writing. Women’s fiction after the Second World War not only kept the feminist agenda alive (amid claims that pre-war feminism had fulfilled its aims), it also saw women authors engage with a diverse range of genres and styles to produce a rich and varied critique of society, politics, and culture. Indeed, the scope of material that could feasibly be labelled as ‘women’s fiction’ is so broad during this period that even using the author’s gender as a means for categorization becomes problematic. Moreover, the 1950s and 1960s saw a generation of women beginning to publish who have been uncomfortable with the very concept of ‘women’s fiction’ or ‘women’s writing’. This means that even considering their work under this heading is not straightforward.

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