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The Human Family - European Women Writers
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The Human Family is the first complete translation of the cycle of ten novellas that Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) wrote between 1895 and 1898. This collection contributes to the rediscovery of Andreas-Salomé's significance as a thinker and writer, above all with regard to her literary contribution to modern feminism and the principles of women's emancipation.
Born in St. Petersburg to a German diplomat and his wife, Andreas-Salomé has always been a figure of interest because of her close relationships to influential thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud. Only since the mid-1980s, however, have her prose fiction and theoretical writings been reconsidered as important documents of emerging ideas and debates in twentieth-century feminism. The ten stories of The Human Family drive home her critical perspective on feminine stereotypes. They depict a wide variety of young women as they relate to men representing different degrees of enlightenment and tolerance, struggling to express a complete and independent feminine identity in the face of the confining but often seductive roles that convention and tradition impose on female potential.
The Human Family provides a subtle and nuanced perspective on European feminist writing from the turn of the last century by a woman writer who was intimately involved with the literary mainstream of her time and whose theoretical and literary works played a significant role in feminist debates of the period, prefiguring present-day feminist discourse on essentialism and constructivism.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780803210714 |
Publisher: | UNP - Nebraska |
Imprint: | University of Nebraska Press |
Pub date: | 15 Dec 2005 |
DEWEY: | 833.8 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 414 |
Weight: | 406g |
Height: | 235mm |
Width: | 158mm |
Spine width: | 17mm |