THE ARTICLES OF EKATERINA VASILEVA, OR THE COURAGE OF “A BULGARIAN WOMAN FROM BRAILA, K. M. V.”
The paper explores the origin and content of five articles sent by Ekaterina Vasileva, a revivalist intellectual with an interesting and unusual personal biography, to the newspapers Otechestvo and Turtsiya. Her publica- tions are among the rare public appearances of a female voice in the public sphere during the Bulgarian Revival period. This required courage, and Ekate- rina Vasileva demonstrated it. In several publications, she expressed her opini- on on public matters and joined in one of the heated theatrical debates that erupted around the performance in Braila of “Velisava, Bulgariann Princess” by Dobri Voynikov. Nedka Kapralova’s book Ekaterina Vasileva. Spomeni. Sti- hotvoreniya. Dopiski gives the reader a much more complete and comprehen- sive picture of the author, who transcends the limitations of her environment.
THE ARTICLES OF EKATERINA VASILEVA, OR THE COURAGE OF “A BULGARIAN WOMAN FROM BRAILA, K. M. V.”
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Nikoleta Patova
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- Institute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Bulgaria
Nikoleta Patova is a literary scholar specializing in Bulgarian literature and dramaturgy from the Bulgarian National Revival period. She serves as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her scholarly research focuses on socio-cultural dynamics and the construction of national and individual identity, 19th and early 20th-century Bulgarian drama and theatre, as well as theatre criticism. She is the author of the monograph "Dramaturgy of Bulgarian Identity: National Identity in National Revival Drama" (2012) alongside numerous academic publications. She led seminar courses in Bulgarian National Revival Literature at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (1999–2015) and lectured at Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv (2012–2015). She is a member of the Academic Circle for Comparative Literature (ACCL) and the Bulgarian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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Abstract:The paper explores the origin and content of five articles sent by Ekaterina Vasileva, a revivalist intellectual with an interesting and unusual personal biography, to the newspapers Otechestvo and Turtsiya. Her publica- tions are among the rare public appearances of a female voice in the public sphere during the Bulgarian Revival period. This required courage, and Ekate- rina Vasileva demonstrated it. In several publications, she expressed her opini- on on public matters and joined in one of the heated theatrical debates that erupted around the performance in Braila of “Velisava, Bulgariann Princess” by Dobri Voynikov. Nedka Kapralova’s book Ekaterina Vasileva. Spomeni. Sti- hotvoreniya. Dopiski gives the reader a much more complete and comprehen- sive picture of the author, who transcends the limitations of her environment.
Subject: We for Others and for OurselvesKeywords: Ekaterina Vasileva articles revivalist newspapers female voice Nedka Kapralova -
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