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A History of Armenian Women's Writing: 1880-1921 introduces the reader to the wealth and diversity of women'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 authors' 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 women'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 women's writing beginning in 1880 with the publication of a series of articles on women'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 women'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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PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN-101904303234

ISBN-139781904303237

eBay Product ID (ePID)168306660

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LanguageEnglish

TopicMiddle Eastern, Literary Criticism

AuthorVictoria Rowe

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Item Length8.7in

Item Weight31.7 Oz

Item Width5.5in

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Publication Year2003

TypeTextbook

Dewey Edition21

FormatHardcover

ReviewsVictoria Rowe is an independent scholar. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she has lectured on Armenian literature. She is the author of numerous articles on Armenian women's literature and history.

Publication NameHistory of Armenian Women's Writing : 1880-1921

Target AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Decimal891.99209287

Table of ContentAcknowledgmentsTransliterationIntroduction: the Awakening and Armenian Women1. Conditions for Women Writers2. Foremothers, "True Sisters" and Srpuhi Dussap3. Education is the Key: Sibyl and Mariam Khatisian4. Women's Journals: Marie Beylerian and Artemis5. Socialism and Revolution: the Poetry of Shushanik Kurghinian6. Exile and Genocide: Zabel YesayianLegacies and Directions: Diaspora and Soviet ArmeniaAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

Number of Pages320 Pages