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Defiant Trajectories: Mapping out Slavic Women Writers Routes
Scientific volume entitled Defiant Trajectories: Mapping out Slavic Women Writers Routes sheds light on various aspects of the work and life stories of nine women writers and poets from the Slavic world: Marija Jurić Zagorka and Ivana Brlić Mažuranić from Croatia, Divna Veković from Montenegro, famous Russian authors Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva and Zinaida Gippius, Maria Konopnicka from Poland, Jelena Dimitrijević from Serbia and Slovenian Zofka Kveder.
Papers in the volume, which are extended research papers presented at the conference Women Writers at the Turn of 19th and 20th Century, organized by the FSK 2019 in Ljubljana, are connected by a common thread of crossing actual and symbolic boundaries set for women, and especially creative women, by the social norms of their time. “Therefore, mapping the paths of women writers is not only creating maps, which we then follow and by doing so enrich and deepen our knowledge of female literary authorship, but what is more, by following their footsteps we celebrate women’s strength, innovation, and creativity,” wrote the editors of the volume Biljana Dojčinović, Maša Grdešić and Katja Mihurko Poniž in the introduction to the book. The authors will present the proceedings at an online event at the end of March.
List of contents
Introduction 6
Maša Grdešić, The Gender of Croatian Modernity: Marija Jurić Zagorka and Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 10
Ksenija Rakočević, Divna Veković – Our Heroine 22
Monika Rudaś-Grodzka, Katarzyna Nadana-Sokolowska, Emilia Kolinko, Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910): In Search of Individual Emancipation 32
Ekaterina Artemyuk, The Life and Literary Work of Russian Women Writers of the Early 20th Century: Their Artistic Merit, Cultural Contribution, and Meaning for the Present 46
Biljana Dojčinović, The European Routes of Jelena J. Dimitrijević 58
Katja Mihurko Poniž, Zofka Kveder – Slavic Cultural and Feminist Icon of the Early 20th Century 72
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