Nostalgie posthistorii, blizny postpamięci – (o)znaczanie nieobecności, (prze)pisanie utraty w Mapie Barbary Sadurskiej
Nostalgies of posthistory, scars of postmemory – (re)marking absence, (re) writing loss in Barbara Sadurska’s Mapa

Summary/Abstract: In the article I examine the narrative form of the novel Mapa by Barbara Sadurska, situating its issues in the context of research in the field of postmemory, trauma studies and hauntology. Based on the observations of Dominick LaCapra and Victoria Aarons regarding the poetics typi- cal of third-generation fictional works, I propose a thesis about the dual nature of elaborating the autobiographical experience of absence through narrative modes characteristic of postmod- ernist fictional prose and post-memorial generational novels. Sadurska attempts to tell/mark an absent history, using, on the one hand, the practice of encoding trauma typical of prosthetic memory and, on the other, referring to the motif of a postmemorial scar, a traumatic punctum, which is a trace of ethnic belonging and a mark of family inheritance – a form that is both mate- rial and symbolically indeterminate, and therefore a hauntology close to paradoxes.

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