Miejsca autobiograficzne. Propozycja w ramach geopoetyki
Autobiographical sites: a proposition within geopoetics

Summary/Abstract: Being a peculiar place of individual memory (as opposed to the concept proposed for the history learning by Pierre Nora), autobiographical site is approached as a concept or image that emerges through three types of reference: creative work, biography, and certain specified topographic areas, depicted together with their cultural symbolism. For an autobiographical site to occur, two conditions are prerequisite: an autobiographical element in the author’s oeuvre and an imagination sensitive to geographical realities. Such venues may be stable, observed on an ongoing basis in a domesticated situation; or, moved: recollected from a distance, merely conceived (in the context of a family tradition), shifted (in case an émigré has accepted his/her new place whilst not abjuring the former), chosen (as a not-too-frequently visited asylum), and, touched upon (for a short time, but with a trace imprinted in the work). The phenomenon in question is presented basing on specimens of Polish post-World War 2 literature.

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