Between a Phantasm and the Daily Life. Herstoric In(ter)ventions in Latest Polish Women’s Literature*
Between a Phantasm and the Daily Life. Herstoric In(ter)ventions in Latest Polish Women’s Literature*

Summary/Abstract: The article explores herstoric in(ter)ventions in Polish women’s literature of the last decades. The author analyzes selected texts by Izabela Filipiak, Joanna Bator, Anna Dziewit-Meller, Martyna Bunda, Liliana Hermetz and IngaIwasiów, drawing particular attention to the strategies of revisionist re-writing women’s phantasms and their influence on the identity of the protagonists and family stories. The author points out that after 1989, there emerges a need to reconsider women’s phantasms present in Polish national imaginarium and the inspiring influence of precursory works by Maria Janion, who was one of the first in Polish literary studies to reflect upon women’s experience of history in gender perspective. The article also refers to influential philosophical concepts by Jolanta Brach-Czaina, seeking in daily, repetitive activities transgressive potential and gestures of resistance against the excluding mechanisms of History, as well as strategies of resilience against trauma.

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