Voices in the shadows : women and verbal art in Serbia and Bosnia / Celia Hawkesworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawkesworth, Celia, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Serbian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Serbian literature.

Bosnian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Bosnian literature.

Folk songs, Serbo-Croatian--History and criticism.

Folk songs, Serbo-Croatian.

Women--Yugoslavia--Serbia.

Women.

Women--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Oral tradition.

Women authors.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Oral tradition--Yugoslavia--Serbia.

Oral tradition--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Yugoslavia.

Serbia.

Physical Description:

281 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2000]

Summary:

Women are conspicuously absent from traditional cultural histories of South-East Europe. This book addresses that imbalance by describing the contribution of women to literary culture in the Orthodox/Ottoman areas of Serbia and Bosnia.

The author provides a broad chronological account of this contribution, dividing the book into two main parts; the earlier period up until the eighteenth century concentrates on the projections of gender through the medium of oral tradition and the lives of a handful of educated women in medieval Serbia and the few works of literature they left. Hawkesworth also looks at the written literature produced by women, first in the mid-nineteenth century and then at the turn of the century. The second part focuses on the trials and tribulations that affected feminism and women's literature throughout the twentieth century. The author finishes by highlighting the new women's movement, 1975-1990, a great period for women in Yugoslavia which created a stimulating atmosphere for outstanding pieces of women's journalism, prose and verse, culminating in the creation of new women's studies courses in many universities.

Contents:

1. Cultural Baggage 17

2. Women's Contribution to the Oral Tradition 33

3. Women's Voices in the Middle Ages 63

4. The Nineteenth Century 89

5. The Turn of the Century: New Opportunities: 1900-1914 123

6. Between the Two World Wars: Modernization 159

7. The Second Yugoslavia: 1945-1991 195

8. Women's Writing in Bosnia Herzegovina 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277) and index.

ISBN:

9639116629

OCLC:

43607247