Reading the body, reading the river. About Małgorzata Lebda’s autoethnographic writing practices Cover Image

Czytanie ciała (i) rzeki. O autoetnograficznych praktykach pisarskich Małgorzaty Lebdy
Reading the body, reading the river. About Małgorzata Lebda’s autoethnographic writing practices

Author(s): Aleksandra Grzemska
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: body; river; community relations; non-human subjects; experience of crisis; autoethnography; posthumanism; new materialism;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes Małgorzata Lebda’s autoethnographic writing practice within the framework of posthumanist theory and new materialist feminism. The author examined the issue of creat- ing and experiencing community relations between non-human subjects using the example of Lebda’s poetry, prose and activist practice. It is based, among others, on the concepts of: river heritage, companion species, kinship, assumptions of transrelational ethnography, ethics of care and responsibility towards weak subjects. In particular, the strategy of constructing water narra- tives was interpreted as an example of a remedy for crisis experiences.

  • Issue Year: 21/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 83-96
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish