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Illuminating Intersections: Ten Years of Feminist Criticism on Contemporary Austrian Women Writers.
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- Women in German Yearbook
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This review focuses on ten years of feminist reception of selected works written by Austrian women writers from the 1970s through the 1990s, with the exception of Elfriede Jelinek. Taken as a whole, the seondary literature can be categorized roughly under the following rubrics: mother-daughter relations; Austria's National-Socialist past; language and gender; the female other meets the "foreign" other; and intertextual allusions. I have singled out those contributions that provide a foundation for further research and/or suggest new directions. (JV)
In the 1979 preface to a special volume of Modern Austrian Literature devoted to Austrian women writers editor ...