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Agata Schwartz & Luise Von Flotow (eds) |
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The Third Shore - Women's Fiction from East Central Europe
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Format: Paperback original |
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Category: Fiction |
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ISBN: 0 86322 362 1 |
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Publication Date: Available |
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Description
The events of 1989 that brought an end to the so-called Eastern Bloc changed the circumstances under which women wrote and published. Still writing from a certain historical and cultural margin, these women from East Central Europe have begun to explore a new freedom whose fruits are displayed to exhilarating effect in this book – a freedom to experiment, to innovate, to create a literature uniquely expressive of their world. This volume for the first time allows English-speaking readers to discover the pleasures of these women's writing.
Featuring writers from eighteen nations ranging from Lithuania to Ukraine to Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Albania, and Slovenia, The Third Shore brings to light a whole spectrum of women's literary accomplishment and experience virtually unknown in the West. Gracefully translated, and with an introduction that establishes their political, historical, and literary context, these stories written in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain are tales of the familiar reconceived and turned into something altogether new by the distinctive experience they reflect. |
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Author
Agata Schwartz is associate professor of German at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Luise von Flotow is associate professor of translation studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
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