Family and Artistic Relations in Polish Women's Autobiographical Literature examines women's autobiographical works published in Poland after the year 2000 in a broader cultural context.
Family and Artistic Relations in Polish Women's Autobiographical Literature examines women's autobiographical works published in Poland after the year 2000 in a broader cultural context.
Aleksandra Grzemska is Assistant Professor in Polish Literature at the University of Szczecin (Poland). Her research focuses on life writing and contemporary Polish women's literature and art. She is an editor at the academic journal Autobiografia. Literatura. Kultura. Media [Autobiography. Literature. Culture. Media] and a critic for various academic and non-academic literary magazines. Tul'si (Tuesday) Bhambry received her PhD in Polish literature at University College London in 2013 and has since been working as a literary and academic translator from Polish and German. She won the Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize in 2015. Among her book-length translations in the humanities are Ryszard Nycz's The Language of Polish Modernism (Peter Lang, 2017) and Lena Magnone's Freud's Emissaries (sdvig, 2023).
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INTRODUCTION: Being in Charge of Autobiography Blended stories and family archives Phantoms of genealogy The framework of duty and obligation CHAPTER 1: Glorification and Reckoning Daughterhood as an emotional concept Ancestors and inheritors Egocentric or altruistic? Uprooted from everyday life CHAPTER 2: Artistic Practices in the Autobiographical Field Aesthetic, ethical and performative potential Confrontations and alliances The logic of the transcryptum and the power of self-fragilization "Yellow was my mother's code" "Mom used to say that onions save lives" CHAPTER 3: Blood Ties, Blood Bonds Entangled in relationships Literary genograms "[Mother] acquired the habit of erecting defensive walls wherever she could" "I've taken your story, Mama, your apocalypse" "[Mother] talked, she talked only to be talking" (Bio)heredity of (in)experience CHAPTER 4: Mothers, Daughters and Their Shame Shame, guilt and empathy Shame in the family and politics Shame, disgust and the body CHAPTER 5: Topologies of Illness Excerpts from the medical record Laboratory of private configurations The family as a malady EPILOGUE: Aesthetics of Autobiographical Hybrids Writing up the family Family (auto)pathographies
INTRODUCTION: Being in Charge of Autobiography Blended stories and family archives Phantoms of genealogy The framework of duty and obligation CHAPTER 1: Glorification and Reckoning Daughterhood as an emotional concept Ancestors and inheritors Egocentric or altruistic? Uprooted from everyday life CHAPTER 2: Artistic Practices in the Autobiographical Field Aesthetic, ethical and performative potential Confrontations and alliances The logic of the transcryptum and the power of self-fragilization "Yellow was my mother's code" "Mom used to say that onions save lives" CHAPTER 3: Blood Ties, Blood Bonds Entangled in relationships Literary genograms "[Mother] acquired the habit of erecting defensive walls wherever she could" "I've taken your story, Mama, your apocalypse" "[Mother] talked, she talked only to be talking" (Bio)heredity of (in)experience CHAPTER 4: Mothers, Daughters and Their Shame Shame, guilt and empathy Shame in the family and politics Shame, disgust and the body CHAPTER 5: Topologies of Illness Excerpts from the medical record Laboratory of private configurations The family as a malady EPILOGUE: Aesthetics of Autobiographical Hybrids Writing up the family Family (auto)pathographies
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