Silent bodies
Subtitle: (re)discovering the women of Romanian short fiction
By: Ileana Alexandra Orlich.
Series: East European monographs ;; no. 601
Publisher: East European Monographs
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo; [Great Britain]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Romanian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Short stories, Romanian -- History and criticism.; Sex role in literature.; Women in literature.; Romania -- In literature.
Description: "The subject of this book is the discussion of four nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century novellas written by representative Romanian writers of the period: Ioan Slavici, Ioan Luca Caragiale, Liviu Rebreanu, and Mkhail Sadoveanu. In addition to these four texts, I also examine an anonymous Romanian ballad that registers an earlier and treacherous testimony to the complex combination of love and sacrifices arond which I crystallize [sic] a theory of politics and sexuality"--Page 1 of Introduction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.