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This series of anthologies is a means of introducing the latest works of Lithuanian literature to an English-speaking readership. The women’s writings presented in this collection recreate the experience of contemporary woman, experience that is closely related to actual cultural and historical phenomena and which contemplates a woman’s search for identity and highlights a woman’s ironic stance towards traditional female values, such as marriage, childbirth and home-making. Reading the latest women’s writings, we can see that the older woman is dying out and is making room for a new woman, one who is different, one who is aware of her opportunities, one who is born right here, before our eyes. Her contours are only just coming into focus ...
Genre: General Fiction
Genre: General Fiction
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