Reseña
She was born in the XIX century and started a writing career when she was 40. In those times, it was pretty late. But she was one of the first women who started talking about women's situation in families and that those women experience violence from husbands in Lithuania. She wrote in Lithuanian and in Samogitian language.
Justificaciones
- She was a writer.
- She stands for women's rights in her books and talks about family violence.
- She wrote a lot about peasant life.
- She was a public figure who helped the poor or those affected by the First World War.
- She was writter that wrote in Lithuanian and Samogitian language.
Biografía
Žemaitė (literally female Samogitian) was the pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė (4 June [23 May] 1845 – 7 December 1921). She was a Lithuanian/Samogitian writer, democrat and educator. Born to impoverished gentry, she became one of the prominent participants in the Lithuanian National Revival. She wrote about peasant life in the style best described as realism.
In her lifetime Žemaitė wrote 354 tales, novelettes, essays, over a dozen of plays, stories about her childhood, as well as several articles and correspondences. Her works have been published in Ūkininkas, Varpas, Vienybė lietuvninkų, Naujienos, Darbininkų balsas, Vilniaus žinios, Lietuvos ūkininkas.
Žemaitė wrote about peasants in a vernacular that closely resembled their language – lively and rich in vocabulary. Her works are usually dark as she depicts poverty, materialism, and arguments within a family. The author paints realistic images of everyday life with petty conflicts, lively conversations, impoverished surroundings, and beautiful nature. Throughout her work, a particular emphasis has been placed upon a woman's role in the family, domestic life and society as a whole, which significantly impacted the development of feminist ideology in the region. Simply by describing poverty, moral indecency and its effects on interpersonal and family relations, Žemaitė unravelled widespread violence against women, the vulnerability of minors and the general patriarchal nature of society at the time. Nevertheless, despite being born to a gentry family, she did not describe gentry life as foreign and unfriendly to her.
Obras
She wrote her best works from 1896 to1898. Among some 150 works, the best known are:
- Marti (Daughter-in-Law)
- Topilys
- Petras Kurmelis
- Sučiuptas velnias (Caught Devil)
- Sutkai
- Gera galva (Good Head)
Enfoque Didáctico
Lithuanian Literature.
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