Tearing down the facade: Traditional images of women and new concepts of feminity in contemporary Romansh literature

Abstract

For a long time, Romansh literature was seen as an « orbis pictus raeticus », an illustration of the people to counteract decay. The focus was on its indigenous nature and on group identity. Literary and cultural crictic academic Iso Camartin speaks of a « temporal shifting » of Romansh literature in relation to the larger European literatures. He argues that the geographical separation, and a resulting regional focus, led to a delayed arrival of modern trends and social movements in the Romansh alpine region . Such a delay might be Show more