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Arabic literature --- Women authors, Arab --- Women authors --- History and criticism
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In this 2007 book, Kate Chedgzoy explores the ways in which women writers of the early modern British Atlantic world imagined, visited, created and haunted textual sites of memory. Asking how women's writing from all parts of the British Isles and Britain's Atlantic colonies employed the resources of memory to make sense of the changes that were refashioning that world, the book suggests that memory is itself the textual site where the domestic echoes of national crisis can most insistently be heard. Offering readings of the work of poets who contributed to the oral traditions of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and analysing poetry, fiction and life-writings by well-known and less familiar writers such as Hester Pulter, Lucy Hutchinson and Aphra Behn, this book explores how women's writing of memory gave expression to the everyday, intimate consequences of the major geopolitical changes that took place in the British Atlantic world in the seventeenth century.
Women authors, English --- Women authors, Irish --- English literature --- Irish literature --- Irish women authors --- English women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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German literature --- Politics in literature --- Women authors, German --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Political and social views --- German women authors
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The astonishing talent of Argentine women writers belies the struggles they have faced—not merely as overlooked authors, but as women of conviction facing oppression. The patriarchal pressures of the Perón years, the terror of the Dirty War, and, more recently, the economic collapse that gripped the nation in 2001 created such repressive conditions that some writers, such as Luisa Valenzuela, left the country for long periods. Not surprisingly, power has become an inescapable theme in Argentine women's fiction, and this collection shows how the dynamics of power capture not only the political world but also the personal one. Whether their characters are politicians and peasants, torturers and victims, parents and children, or lovers male and female, each writer explores the effects of power as it is exercised by or against women. The fifteen writers chosen for Women and Power in Argentine Literature include famous names such as Valenzuela, as well as authors anthologized for the first time, most notably María Kodama, widow of Jorge Luis Borges. Each chapter begins with a "verbal portrait," editor Gwendolyn Díaz's personal impression of the author at ease, formed through hours of conversation and interviews. A biographical essay and critical commentary follow, with emphasis on the work included in this anthology. Díaz's interviews, translated from Spanish, and finally the stories themselves—only three of which have been previously published in English—complete the chapters. The extraordinary depth of these chapters reflects the nuanced, often controversial portrayals of power observed by Argentine women writers. Inspiring as well as insightful, Women and Power in Argentine Literature is ultimately about women who, in Díaz's words, "choose to speak their truth regardless of the consequences."
Spanish-American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Argentina --- Argentine literature --- Authors, Argentine --- Women and literature --- Women authors, Argentine --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- Literature --- Argentine women authors
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Frau. --- German literature --- German literature. --- Literarisches Leben. --- Schriftstellerin. --- Women authors, German --- Women authors, German. --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Women authors. --- 1800-1899. --- Geschichte 1780-1918. --- Deutschland.
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Women authors, Japanese --- History --- Joryū Bungakushakai (Japan)
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