Women's Experience of Working on Transgenerational Trauma in Joanna Bator's Novel "Gorzko, gorzko" Cover Image

Kobiece doświadczenie pracy z traumą transgeneracyjną w powieści "Gorzko, gorzko" Joanny Bator
Women's Experience of Working on Transgenerational Trauma in Joanna Bator's Novel "Gorzko, gorzko"

Author(s): Katarzyna Eron
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Keywords: transgenerational trauma; transgenerational trasmission of trauma; women's genealogy; motherhood; daughterhood; sisterhood; herstory

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to reflect on the women’s experience of working on transgenerational trauma on example of the novel by Joanna Bator entitled Gorzko, gorzko. Due to the cultural marginalization and stigmatization, the process of understanding or interrupting intergenerational transmission of trauma costs women a lot of effort and sometimes do not succeed at all. The text analyses four generations mother-daughter (sometimes grandmother-granddaughter) relationships, in which the youngest family member tries to break the transgenerational transmissions to begin consciously creating her own future as free from the suffering of others.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 119-131
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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