Lost Legacies, or: Cherchez la femme!

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Published: Aug 23, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14232/tntef.2023.1.77-98
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Women's literary tradition, women's literature, feminist literary studies

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Liliana Bolemant
Phoenix Polgári Társulás, Pozsony

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In my search for forgotten writers, I was confronted with the concept of a lost legacy from two angles. Firstly, the phenomenon of literary oblivion, omission or erasure from the canon, which is still the reason why women writers, active participants in literary life in their own time, are unknown to the general public, scholars and students. The second meaning of the concept of legacy is the real, material meaning. In my research I have often been hampered by the lack of tangible documents. As if the legacies of women writers were not considered important either by their descendants or by otherwise dedicated librarians and archivists. Thus, a great deal of important research material, manuscripts, notes and correspondence have disappeared.
In the search for the legacies, works and ideas that are still available today, I am trying to revive a literary tradition of women.

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Bolemant, Liliana. 2023. “Lost Legacies, Or: Cherchez La Femme!”. Interdisciplinary EJournal of Gender Studies 13 (1):77-98. https://doi.org/10.14232/tntef.2023.1.77-98.
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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2023)
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Liliana Bolemant, Phoenix Polgári Társulás, Pozsony

Bolemant, Lilla (1964, Nové Zámky) Slovakia.  Literary researcher, bibliotherapist, women's rights expert, publisher. Works at the National Institute for Public Education and Youth, Bratislava. Her literary research focuses on women's literary tradition, women writers in minority Hungarian literature and gender aspects of the sociology of reading. She summarized her research on women's literature in her monograph entitled Women's Voices (Bratislava, Phoenix Library, 2016). She is the author and editor of the university textbook Introduction to Gender Studies (Phoenix Library, 2015) and other publications on women's rights. She is the founder of Womanpress - Phoenix Library Publishing (2013), which publishes works by women writers. As a bibliotherapist, she cooperates with the University of Pécs. She is member of the Hungarian Literary Therapy Association, the Association of Hungarian Librarians in Slovakia and Basecamp, Hungarian Literary and Art Association.