The South Pacific in Mind: A 1920s Slovenian Literary View of Australia and New Zealand

Abstract

The Slovenian travel writer Alma Karlin (1889-1950) searched for the otherness of her life experience far beyond her homeland. The literary aspiration of this author, a strong, determined and independent woman, was ahead of her time and its constrictive social conventions, and she tried to transcend the limitations of her gender and nationality. Karlin set off to seek new opportunities and sources of inspiration outside of her native land and cultural context, the Slovenian lands within the Kingdom of Slovenians, Croats and Serbs, later officially called the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, established immediately after the Great War.