Women Imprisoned – History and (Her)story
Women Imprisoned – History and (Her)story

Summary/Abstract: The present paper investigates some aspects that particularize women detention accounts of Romanian political prisons. Besides the four testimonies listed in the bibliography, that of Lena Constante, Elisabeta Rizea and Lucreţia Jurj, I have also included the account of Aniţa Nandriş-Cudla on her years of deportation to Siberia, because of the existing thematic and narrative similarities. My concern is both with analysing the motivations and mechanisms that made women resistance possible, and identifying – whenever accessible – gender-specific themes or narrative strategies. The central thesis of this study is that differences in educational and cultural backgrounds, religious belief and moral stance, of political affiliation or sympathy, of family or group cohesion leave an indelible mark on this particular kind of literature, which finds itself at the border of historical documentation and subjective memoirs.

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