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Baba Krasa
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Published January 1, 2017
About the author
Jelena Dimitrijević
21 books6 followersJelena Dimitrijević was a serbian short story writer, novelist, poet, traveller, social worker, feminist, and a polyglot.
Dimitrijević travelled widely, describing her experiences of Greece, India, Egypt, and America in a series of books. She devoted her energies in quite early life (1881–1898) to the study of Muslim women, and published in 1897 her Pisma iz Niša o haremima. Among her achievements were gaining an understanding of the lives of Turkish women, including access to the private world of the harem, and undertaking a journey round the world in her sixties. Such portraits are a valuable counter to the narrow conceptions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century feminism which sees it firmly rooted in north-west Europe and North America. Her most important novel Nove (New Women); deals with the dilemmas facing educated Muslim women in the twentieth century in relation to their traditional way of life. For Nove Dimitrijevic won the prestigious Matica Srpska prize for literature in 1912
Dimitrijević travelled widely, describing her experiences of Greece, India, Egypt, and America in a series of books. She devoted her energies in quite early life (1881–1898) to the study of Muslim women, and published in 1897 her Pisma iz Niša o haremima. Among her achievements were gaining an understanding of the lives of Turkish women, including access to the private world of the harem, and undertaking a journey round the world in her sixties. Such portraits are a valuable counter to the narrow conceptions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century feminism which sees it firmly rooted in north-west Europe and North America. Her most important novel Nove (New Women); deals with the dilemmas facing educated Muslim women in the twentieth century in relation to their traditional way of life. For Nove Dimitrijevic won the prestigious Matica Srpska prize for literature in 1912
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