FEMININE REFLECTIONS IN THE MEMOIRS OF COMMUNIST DETENTION
FEMININE REFLECTIONS IN THE MEMOIRS OF COMMUNIST DETENTION

Summary/Abstract: The women which rejected the communist regime and fought against it after its installation in Romania after World War II sometimes showed more courage, dignity and faith in their detention than some of the men that populated the political prisons.Though imprisonment was hard and they were treated in the same way the men were, womanhood, through its intrinsic power and sensibility, often brought light and, thus, hope in the bleak cells. Memoirs written by some of these feminine heroines manage to reflect, as much as literature is able to, their life as it was back in those days – filled with suffering and hardships, but also with the joy of rediscovering themselves through this suffering and through faith. The present paper proposes a journey into some of these disturbing writings, as we discover what kept these women going through that materialisation of hell represented by political detention.

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