1st Edition
Voices in the Shadows Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia
By Celia Hawkesworth
Copyright 2000
296 Pages
by
Central European University Press
296 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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 first complete literary history in relation to women's writing in south-east Europe. The author provides a broad chronological account of this contribution,... Read more
Introduction, 1. Cultural Baggage, 2. Women's Contribution to the Oral Tradition, 3. Women's Voices in the Middle Ages, 4. The Nineteenth Century, 5. The Turn of the Century: New Opportunities: 1900-1914, 6. Between the Two World Wars: Modernization, 7. The Second Yugoslavia: 1945-1991, 8. Women's Writing in Bosnia Herzegovina, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Celia Hawkesworth is Professor of Serbian and Croatian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.
