While some Jewish immigrant autobiographies have received broad critical attention, a few important autobiographical endeavours have been underrepresented or almost forgotten. Autobiographies written ...by Jewish female writers who immigrated to America from Russia, Poland, or Galicia often draw a bifurcated picture of their struggles in callous New York sweatshops, or, on the contrary, they exalt the Jews’ notable success while blending in the American melting pot. Scarce studies, however, have been devoted to the dislocation and uprootedness of female immigrants and to the nostalgic feelings they have experienced during their absorption into American reality. This paper intends to resuscitate the forgotten voice of a Jewish immigrant female writer, Rose Gollup-Cohen. Moreover, using primarily psychoanalytical methodology and a feminist theory, the paper focuses on the nostalgic feelings that immigrants reverted to. Finally, it deals with both the therapeutic and the destructive powers of compulsive writing and shows how the writing process assists an immigrant writer when coping with distress experienced in her new homeland, but, on the other hand, it also demonstrates how compulsive writing may lead to obsessive behaviours, resulting in losing awareness of one’s surroundings, neglecting one’s family, and even to depression and suicide.
This volume takes a closer look at women’s perspectives on (post-)migration and explores the uncertainties, frictions, struggles and opportunities emerging from that context. It revolves around ...African and Afrodescendant female writers and artists and refers to the uncomfortable stories they tell, stories about what it means to have migrated to, live in, or have been born in Romance-speaking Europe. Their voices reveal positionings of the ‘female Other’ that oscillate between alienation and belonging, moving between African, European and other (diasporic) spaces.
This article is a study of the thoughts of Indonesian female writers towards Acehnese women as reflected in the literary works they produce. The objects used are the novel Perempuan Keumala by Endang ...Moerdopo (2008) and the novel Seulusoh by D. Kemalawati (2006). These two manuscripts were chosen because the background story used is about Aceh, the characters in the novel are Acehnese women. So far, it is difficult to find female Indonesian writers who highlight the social life of the female Acehnese in their stories. Thus, this study can be used as the basis for literary criticism in the field of Acehnese gynocritic feminism. This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive text analysis. The theory that is used as the rationale for this study is Showalter's gynocritic literary criticism (1981 and 2000), which is now as a theory of contemporary literary criticism. The results of the analysis reflect the thoughts of Acehnese women writers on the figures of Acehnese women and Acehnese women in the view of women authors outside Aceh. The focus of the analysis includes (1) female biological elements; (2) female psychological elements; (3) female language; and (4) female culture. The results of the study show that Acehnese women in Acehnese women's literary works tend to appear as feminine figures, but are also brave, responsible, and have high social sensitivity. As for Acehnese women, in the eyes of women outside Aceh, they are described as brave, hard, responsible, and have a heroic spirit.
From the mid-19th century to the present day, women’s literary creation in Friulian is quite rich and varied. We propose to retrace the main creations in Friulian of a few women of letters, ...highlighting the stylistic choices, the literary genres specifically selected and, above all, the psychological motivations which prompted these cultivated women to express themselves in Friulian, in preference to the official language of the country, Italian. Caterina Percoto celebrates the rural world, Maria Forte performs the work of an ethnologist when she records the expressions used by the characters in her stories, Novella Cantarutti describes a Friulian valley through the adoption of its dialectal variation, while Nelvia Di Monte recovers the language of her father as the repository of the culture of her family and her native land. These and other experiences which are described in this article are the fruit of an acute linguistic awareness and aim at increasing the value of Friulian as a literary language.
Mística, filosofía y mujeres Fernández Martín, Patricia
Journal of the sociology and theory of religion,
01/2024, Volume:
16, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Este trabajo propone una vuelta a la relación entre ética y religión (cristiana) a partir de la recuperación hermenéutica de textos femeninos. Para ello, se comienza explicando por qué se considera ...relevante la religión para determinar un tipo de ética, siguiendo a tres grandes filósofos como son Bergson, Kant y Kolakowski. Después, se les da voz a algunas de las mujeres religiosas que han testificado vivir en sus carnes la experiencia de lo Absoluto y, a la vez, han sufrido una doble invisibilización (por ser religiosas y por ser mujeres). Dado que no se les ha permitido construir discursos plenamente filosófico-teológicos, han necesitado apoyarse en sus experiencias religiosas para configurar las pautas que marquen su comportamiento. De todo ello se puede extraer cierta aplicación práctica del doble núcleo de la ética del amor cristiano: amar a Dios sobre todas las cosas y al prójimo como a uno mismo.
Las letras mexicanas tienen una amplia tradición de novela política, en su mayoría escrita por hombres. Este es el caso de la novela de la Revolución Mexicana, que integra a autores tan conocidos y ...estudiados como Mariano Azuela o Martín Luis Guzmán. La producción literaria sobre la militancia y las guerrillas de los años sesenta y setenta parece haberse masculinizado aún más. En contraste, hay un giro notorio en las primeras décadas del siglo XXI, pues han aparecido al menos tres novelas sobre las turbulencias sociales y políticas posteriores al movimiento estudiantil de 1968 escritas por mujeres que mezclan lo autobiográfico y la ficción: por orden de publicación son Alias Lucía (2011) de Eva Leticia de Sánchez, Guerra de guerrillas (2014) de Marxitania Ortega y Velvet Was the Night (2021) de Silvia Moreno-García. La relación que cada una de estas autoras guarda con lo que narra, así como el contexto desde donde escribe y publica, proporciona un espectro rico en complejidades para analizar sus novelas sobre estos temas, ver lo mucho que tienen en común, así como sus profundas diferencias.
Is Medusa laughing again? Rabinovich, Irina
Orbis litterarum,
April 2022, Volume:
77, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Caroline Lee Hentz's novella Fatal Cosmetic (1839) and Rebekah Hyneman's serial novella The Fatal Cosmetic (1853) are harbingers of American sensation fiction, though for more than a century and a ...half they were doomed to oblivion. Although different in style and characterization, both novelists aimed at propagating social and political agendas. This paper examines the development of this genre's key elements from earlier conformist ones to their later comprehensive materialization. Moreover, it examines the possible mythological and historical sources Hyneman's novella draws on.
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