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.

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).

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.

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