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Neki arhivski primeri neiskorišćenog kulturnog kapitala
Some Archival Examples of Neglected Cultural Capital

Author(s): Svetlana Tomić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: South Slavic culture; history; digital humanities; women writers; female teachers

Summary/Abstract: Archives are important places for researching and reconstructing the past, they lead to discoveries,and they can refute dominant stereotypes. Despite that fact, Serbian feminist scholars haveneglected archival research of women writers. In this paper the author points out to resistanceof the main Serbian institutions to digitalize archival sources of women writers and indicatessome consequences of contemporary feminists’ stance to historical sources. The author directsattention to some important but ignored examples of archival materials in Serbia and Bosnia andHerzegovina. Since they offer informative, significant, and complex account on the past, theycan help reconstruct of the South Slavic culture and establish the importance of women writers.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 71-82
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian
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