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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... wrote an essay supporting the use of the vernacular as a written language . Sibyl , in collaboration with her husband , wrote a grammar of vernacular Armenian . According to a contempo- rary of Sibyl's , this grammar was highly popular ...
... wrote of issues of interest to women . .62 The journals therefore gave women a public voice and a public arena for activism . The journal , unlike the salon and chari- table organization , allowed women of different social classes to ...
... wrote numerous appeals seeking to draw world atten- tion to the plight of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide , including The Agony of A People ( 1917 ) and Le rôle de la femme arménienne pendant la guerre ( 1922 ) . She also ...
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Conditions for Women Writers | 17 |
Foremothers True Sisters and Srpuhi Dussap | 33 |
Sibyl and Mariam Khatisian | 75 |
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