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The Reflections of Feminist Ideas in Novels and Short Stories by Slovenian Women Writers
The Reflections of Feminist Ideas in Novels and Short Stories by Slovenian Women Writers

Author(s): Katja Mihurko Poniž
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Zofka Kveder; Berta Bojetu; Suzana Tratnik; Nataša Sukič; Slovenian feminist movement; Slovenian lesbian movement

Summary/Abstract: Slovenian authors who contribute to the feminist and later lesbian discourse are often also the poetsand writers. As far as the feminist and lesbian theory tradition is concerned, the connection towestern theories is present. Slovenian women writers and their female characters think about theoptions of a female subject position, they reflect their own dilemmas and issues in the creative process.While the character of a heterosexual feminist is still marginal in modern Slovenian literature,the character of a lesbian realizing the demands of radical feminism has become a self-evidentpart of the Slovenian literary production with the works of Suzana Tratnik and Nataša Sukič.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 143-156
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English