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Govor žena u delu Čitač Bernarda Šlinka
Women`s Speech In The Reader By Bernhard Schlink

Author(s): Budimka Uskoković
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Gender history, German Literature
Published by: Filološki fakultet, Nikšić
Keywords: language; power; guilt; gender; Nazism; woman’s role;

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the relationship between women and men in two different political and social systems in the 20th century Germany, as represented in Bernare Schlink’s The Reader. Differences between two characters, Hanna Schmitz and the young Jewish girl, are presented through their attitudes and their speech, which clearly reflect the systems in which they grew up. Men influenced the world of women in Germany in the 20th century and women had special role in Nazism. This article shows, however, that at the end of the 20th century, female power, women’s identity and their social roles had changed significantly.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 207-218
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian