The Representations of Slavic Nations in the Writings of Josipina Turnograjska
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Josipina Turnograjska was the first Slovenian woman writer who wrote in the years after the March revolution of 1848. During that period, the national consciousness of the Slovenians living under the Austro-Hungarian domination began to strengthen. Her male contemporaries, who were beginners in the field of Slovenian prose as well, wrote nationalist literature where the figure of the Slovenian peasant was placed in the limelight. Josipina Turnograjska used the events from the histories of Slavic nations as the subject matter for her stories. In her works women were depicted as the figures who surpassed the male protagonists in courage when fighting for their homeland on the battlefield. Turnograjska wanted to awaken the love for the Slav homeland through her work and sought the integration of all Slavs in the common homeland.