SRBUHI TYUSAB’S PUBLICISM, SOCIAL-PUBLIC VIEWS AND ROLE IN WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION PROCESSES

Abstract

The study examined fiction and journalistic activities, articles, and socio-public views of the Western Armenian Constantinople writer of the second half of the 19^th century, Srbuhi Tyusab. Tyusab’s publicism was a new experience of broadcasting political, socio-public and literary-cultural dialogues, which was most popular in the second half of the 19^th century.

The aim of the study is to reveal the author's literary-cultural and socio-public views, as well as their role in the processes of women's emancipation, by examining Srbuhi Tyusab’s op-ed articles. The problem of the study is to analyze the publicistic legacy of the Western Armenian female author of the second half of the 19^th century, Srbuhi Tyusab, which has not been properly examined yet. The novelty of the study is the attempt to interpret the ways of women's emancipation and development in a new fashion. The study is interdisciplinary. It was analyzed in the context of the reciprocal connections and relationships between literary studies, history, anthropology, and ethno-culture. Literary critical, philosophical, and linguistic methods were applied, highlighting and focusing the various manifestations and stratifications existing in Srbuhi Tyusab's op-ed articles within the scope of the studied material. This kind of study has been done for the first time. It is important and relevant not only from the point of view of interdisciplinarity, but also from the point of view of analyzing women’s issues in Armenology.