Essays on the Awareness of Loss in Contemporary Albanian Literature - Voices That Come From the Abyss

Through the work of three politically persecuted women writers and two modern poets, this book analyzes loss in contemporary Albanian literature explored in relation to pain, grief, memory, death and freedom, questioning the meeting point between life writing and poetry, and the point where they part ways.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Loss and (Owing to) the Self in Women Authors' (Life) Writing in Contemporary Albanian Literature
Chapter One: Musine Kokalari: the (un) silenced voice of a woman writer; Her memoir La mia vita universitaria and her epistolary.
Chapter Two: Voicing silence and exploring the self; the Intimate diary by Bedi Pipa
Chapter Three: Vowed to loss, voice regained; Light that Comes from the Abyss by Drita Çomo
Part Two: Loss in contemporary Albanian Poetry: death, memory and grief
Chapter Four: On the threshold of the dark; the impossibility of loss. The poetry of Fatos Arapi
Chapter Five: The Awareness of Loss and the Grieving Path of a Poet Father toward the (im)mortal Son; The volume Lum Lumi by Ali Podrimja.
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Bavjola Gami Shatro is associate professor of literature at Aleksandër Moisiu University in Albania and is President of South East European Studies Association (SEESA), USA.

Product details

• Authors: Bavjola Gami Shatro
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2024
• EAN: 9781666924770
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-477-0
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, Albanian