A History of Armenian Women's Writing, 1880-1922Cambridge Scholars, 2003 - 301 էջ A History of Armenian Womenâ (TM)s Writing: 1880-1921 introduces the reader to the wealth and diversity of womenâ (TM)s writing in Armenian in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume focuses on six Armenian women writers-Srpouhi Dussap, Sibyl, Mariam Khatisian, Marie Beylerian, Shushanik Kurghinian and Zabel Yesayian and these authorsâ (TM) novels, short stories, poems and essays. The study contends that Western and Eastern Armenian women writers, while not displaying a uniformity of opinion and vision, nevertheless found inspiration in the activism, writings and arguments of one another and form a literary genealogy of womenâ (TM)s writing in Armenian. The study has several objectives. For general readers and those interested primarily in the historical account it provides a chronological description of the formative period of modern Armenian womenâ (TM)s writing beginning in 1880 with the publication of a series of articles on womenâ (TM)s education and employment by Srpouhi Dussap and concludes with the physical dislocations and psychological traumas of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and the fall of the first independent Republic of Armenia in 1921. On another level the book concentrates on disentangling the contemporaneous intellectual debates about Armenian womenâ (TM)s proper sphere. The author argues that the role of the Armenian woman was central to debates about national identity, education, the family and society by Armenian writers and women writers sought to participate in and guide this discourse through literary texts. |
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Արդյունքներ 13–ի 1-ից 3-ը:
... Araksia or the Governess in which the main character is described as follows : Araksia studied Armenian and then French but she particularly loved ancient and modern philosophy . She compared , she exam- ined , she thought and finally ...
... Araksia . Araksia is thoughtful , intelli- gent and continually subverts social conventions in a polite but firm manner . Dussap describes her as someone who " wants to keep the rights given by nature , she wants to be a useful person ...
... Araksia has a strong sense of her personal honour , which is different from common societal notions of honour . Araksia's sense of herself as a separate and distinct person is further devel- oped when she finally does enter into the ...
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Conditions for Women Writers | 17 |
Foremothers True Sisters and Srpuhi Dussap | 33 |
Sibyl and Mariam Khatisian | 75 |
Հեղինակային իրավունք | |
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