Out from the Shadows
Subtitle: Essays on Contemporary Austrian Women Writers and Filmmakers (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought)
Publisher: Ariadne Press (CA)
Published: April 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781572410374
Subjects: Feminism; Literary studies: general; Literature: Texts; Performing Arts; Women motion picture producers and directors; Literary Criticism; German Literature; Women In Performing Arts; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; Women authors; European - German; Austrian literature; 20th century; Austria; History and criticism; Women motion picture producers
Description: Literature and films created by women in Austria since 1945 are directed towards social and ethnic consciousness-raising. They are conceived as the writers' responsibility to tell the truth. The texts written in the 1950s and early 1960s went largely unrecognized and remained hidden within the shadows of the body of art by men. The socio-political implications of these works were only understood by the women writers as well as by filmmakers who came of age during the women's movement in the 1960s.

During the 1970s the literary and film texts of the younger generation which slowly emerged from the shadows of Austria's male-dominated artist milieus strongly assert feminist views and pleas. Another decade later, in the wake of the Waldheim affair, reactivating memory became central to many women authors and filmmakers in Austria's society, caught up with forgetting and repressing.