The Depiction of Women's Education and Emancipation at the Periphery of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: A Novel of a Young Girl by Draga Gavrilović (1889)

Barać, Stanislava (2016) The Depiction of Women's Education and Emancipation at the Periphery of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: A Novel of a Young Girl by Draga Gavrilović (1889). In: "Wir wollen der Gerechtigkeit und Menschenliebe dienen ---" : Frauenbildung und Emanzipation in der Habsburger Monarchie - der südslawische Raum und seine Wechselwirkung mit Wien, Prag und Budapest. BiografiA : neue Ergebnisse der Frauenbiografieforschung (18). Praesens, Wien, pp. 246-267. ISBN 978-3-7069-0850-4

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Abstract

This paper deals with the depiction of women's education and emancipation in A Novel of a Young Girl (1889) written by Draga Gavrilović, one of the first Serbian female and feminist writers. By explaining the cultural and socio-political context of the work of Draga Gavrilović, with some references to the auto/biographical aspects of her writing, the author shows how Gavrilović's work is representative of both women's literature and their socio-cultural status at the end of the 19th century in the (South-Eastern part of) Austro-Hungarian Empire. The problem is at the same time further elaborated in terms of the dichotomy between centre and periphery. The novel itself is read within the theoretical frame of the public sphere and feminist counter-public, and generic intersections between journalism and literature. Viewed from this perspective, the discussion on education, emancipation, gender, family, marriage and love emerges as the central narrative of the novel.

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