TY - JOUR
TI - In Search of Women’s Literary Traditions. Forgotten Slovak Female Poets in the First Half of the 20th Century
AU - Majerek, Rafał
TI - In Search of Women’s Literary Traditions. Forgotten Slovak Female Poets in the First Half of the 20th Century
AB - The article presents one of the publishing projects important in the context of Slovak literary studies in recent years, the anthology Sunken Souls. From Works by Slovak Female Poets in the First Half of the 20th Century (2017), edited by Andrea Bokníková. The book recalls the works of twelve women poets who were present in the literary life of the first decades of the 20th century, then gave up their literary activity for various reasons, and memory of them was gradually blurred. The published texts could be a starting point for reflection on the possibility of reinterpreting the history of Slovak literature and making its description more dynamic, e.g. thanks to the reconstruction of the line of women’s writing, often ignored or schematically presented in historical literary studies. This kind of project would correspond with the current search for new ways of conceptualising the literary past.
VL - 2022
IS - Vol. XVIII
PY - 2022
SN - 2451-4985
C1 - 2543-9561
SP - 231
EP - 240
DO - 10.4467/25439561KSR.22.017.16369
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kultura-slowian/article/w-poszukiwaniu-kobiecych-tradycji-literackich-zapomniane-poetki-slowackie-pierwszej-polowy-xx-wieku
KW - Slovak literature
KW - women’s poetry
KW - forgotten tradition
KW - reinterpretation of the literary canon
KW - Andrea Bokníková