The Constructions of Feminine Subjectivity in Gundega Repše’s Novels
The Constructions of Feminine Subjectivity in Gundega Repše’s Novels

Summary/Abstract: The period of the late 1980s and early 1990s initiated a radically new cultural paradigm in Latvia and the wider region of East-Central Europe. It was marked by the appearance of a young generation of writers whose work brought in much novelty and established clear breaking points from the Soviet tradition. In 1987 and 1988, three young authors — Andra Neiburga, Rudīte Kalpiņa and Gundega Repše published their first collections of stories. Acknowledging their radical novelty, critics named these writers ‘angry young girls’, by analogy with British ‘angry young men’ of the 1960s. Radicalism and destruction were probably more an effect of over-interpretation, reflecting the critics’ expectations for a new tradition in Latvian literature that was due along with the general changes of socio-historical situation.

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