Voices in the shadows
Subtitle: women and verbal art in Serbia and Bosnia
By: Celia Hawkesworth.
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Serbian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Bosnian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Folk songs, Serbo-Croatian -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Serbia and Montenegro -- Serbia.; Women and literature -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.; Oral tradition -- Serbia and Montenegro -- Serbia.; Oral tradition -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Description: "Women are conspicuously absent from traditional cultural histories of South-East Europe. This book addresses that imbalance by describing the contribution of women to literary culture in the Orthodox/Ottoman areas of Serbia and Bosnia."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-277) and index.