CÓRKI KONOPNICKIEJ: STRATEGIA MIMIKRY I JEJ SYMPTOM
KONOPNICKA’S DAUGHTERS: THE STRATEGY OF MIMICRY AND ITS SYMPTOM

Summary/Abstract: The article develops suggested by Grażyna Borkowska concept of “the strategy of mimicry” or following the male literary tradition, as applied by Polish positivist women writers. Using psychoanalyst terminology, the strategy may be compared to femininity expulsion mechanism, inevitably connected with the return of the forced out femininity in hysterical symptoms. The author analyzes the example of Maria Konopnicka and tries to show how relations of the writer and two of her daughters may help to understand the selected by her model of writing and its consequences. The stunning beauty of her daughters, their femininity and madness seem to be a reverse of the applied by the poet strategy of mimicry, its symptom. The article is based on non-published so far Konopnicka’s letters.

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