WRITING AS SELF-RECOVERY: CORPOREALITY, MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN WOMEN`S CARCERAL LITERATURE
WRITING AS SELF-RECOVERY: CORPOREALITY, MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN WOMEN`S CARCERAL LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: This article examines how women’s prison memoirs transform bodily suffering into narrative meaning and forms of self-reconstruction. Focusing on Lena Constante’s The Silent Escape, The Impossible Escape and Sabina Wurmbrand’s The Nobility of Suffering, the study shows how the female body, subjected to hunger, cold, isolation and humiliation, becomes both the target of political violence and a site of resilience. In these texts, storytelling does not merely recount trauma; it works as a restorative practice through which the traumatized body is symbolically reclaimed and reintegrated into a discourse of dignity. The paper argues that, in conditions of captivity, bodily vulnerability can also generate solidarity, care and a renewed relation to the self. Ultimately, the body emerges as both witness and archive of suffering, while narrative becomes a means of survival and identity repair.

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