A Past Rescued From Oblivion: A Self-Portrait of an Audacious Young Woman Defying the Conventions of her Time - Couverture rigide

Vukelic, Vilma

 
9781525556289: A Past Rescued From Oblivion: A Self-Portrait of an Audacious Young Woman Defying the Conventions of her Time
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ISBN 10 : 1525556282 ISBN 13 : 9781525556289
Editeur : FriesenPress, 2020

Synopsis

This book is written in the form of a memoir and covers the events in the life of its author, Vilma Vukelic from her earliest childhood (she was born in 1880) to 15 August 1904, the day her first child, Branko was born.

It is a contribution to women's history in the form of a portrait of an intelligent young woman and a burgeoning feminist resisting social norms imposed on women of her generation.

It is a contribution to the history of central and southeastern Europe with its spirited descriptions of the bourgeois life in Osijek, a small provincial town by the River Drava close to the Hungarian-Croatian border, at the outskirts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is a contribution to Jewish history, with the specific emphasis on the life in various Jewish settlements in central and eastern Europe. The author describes late nineteenth-century Jewish optimistic attempts towards social integration and full acceptance by the surrounding society-hopes and expectations tragically shattered soon after.

It is a lively account of a happy childhood, full of colourful descriptions of a little girl's discoveries of the wonderful as well as bleak aspects of life. There is also an account of life in an elite boarding school in Vienna and a romantic love story.

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À propos de l'auteur

Vilma Vukelic (1880-1956) is a recognized Croatian writer whose literary work is entirely written in German, her mother tongue. A Croatian translation of her memoir under the title Tragovi proslosti was published posthumously in Zagreb in 1994. The present English translation from the German original is the work of her granddaughter Ivana Caccia.

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Éditeur
FriesenPress
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1525556282
ISBN 13 
9781525556289
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
408
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1525556290 ISBN 13 :  9781525556296
Editeur : FriesenPress, 2020
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