List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Recovering the Historical Facts and the New Women in Serbian Culture
I. The New Women and Their Cultural Contributions
1. Draga Gavrilović, the First Serbian Female Novelist: The Old and New Interpretations
2. Queen Natalija Obrenović: The Complexity of Her Public Engagements and Her Different Contributions to Serbian Society and Culture
3. Milka Aleksić Grgurova: An Actress Taking on the World of Writing
4. Jelena J. Dimitrijević, A World-Traveler: The Authority of the New Women’s Knowledge
II. Some of the Men Who Supported New Women
5. Dragutin Ilić and Queen Natalija
6. Uroš Predić and Danica Bandić
III. The Construction, Reconstruction, and Deconstruction of Memory of New Women
7. Rediscovering Serbian Women’s Memoirs: Gendered Comparison in a Historical Context
8. A Bibliography: A Tool for Reconstructing the History of Women Translators
9. From a Ruined Tomb to the First Public Monument Dedicated to a Woman: Constructing the Memory of the First Serbian Poetess
10. The Remembering Project: The First Album of Famous Women in Serbian Culture
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Svetlana Tomić is associate professor at Alfa BK University.
[Tomić's] work is welcome and long overdue.... Some 15
black-and-white figures, a 33-page bibliography (7 of primary
works, 26 of secondary sources), a comprehensive index, detailed
notes and references, and the numerous questions Tomić poses point
to a wealth of possibilities for future research on this topic.
Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.-- "Choice
Reviews"
In Serbian cultural reality, one may discover sporadic
correspondences of forgotten or tacit sequences linked to women's
contributions to the national history and culture, where every
contribution to this effort, especially if it is available to
foreign readers, is a feat worth admiration. This book is here to
fill in the voids and to emancipate the readers through the life
and creative achievements of these selected women to tell an
exciting story about the struggle and enlightenment and
freedom.--Gordana Stojakovic, independent researcher
Scholar and editor Svetlana Tomic has compiled a book outlining the
selective, biased, and deliberate ignorance that Serbian critics
and cultural gatekeepers have imposed on the biographies and
achievements of Serbian women--making clear that women who were
admired in their time truly deserve our attention today. This book
will interest feminists, scholars of women's history and writing,
specialists in Slavic Studies, and general readers who will wonder
why they haven't heard of many of these accomplished and important
figures.--Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore
College
This book by Svetlana Tomic is an extraordinary example of research
that introduces unknown personalities, stories, and documented
history both in Serbian and in international feminist academic
populations. Hence, the term 'hidden' in the title is fully
justified. But the author also discovers the impressive lives of
women--their strength and achievements in difficult times and
difficult places. The result is women's contribution to national
culture, some daring avant-garde works, modernity, progressive
thinking, and the official silence covering them ever since. The
book also points to today's Serbian cultural problems, based on the
same patriarchal patterns and the historical setback in the 1990s
and on.--Svetlana Slapsak, professor of Classics, University of
Ljubljana
Tomic's book is a timely intervention in the scholarship on women's
writing and art and is significant not only for Serbian cultural
history but also for the entire Balkan region. Tomic makes a
powerful case for the importance to recover from oblivion valuable
knowledge about the women who played key roles on the Serbian
cultural scene since the mid-1800s, when more educational and
professional opportunities for women were created. Her clear
writing style and compelling argumentation make this book a
must-read for anyone interested in the forgotten voices of women in
literature and art in Serbia and the wider Balkans.--Mariya
Chokova, Harvard University
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