W POSZUKIWANIU SIEBIE. AUTOBIOGRAFICZNA TWÓRCZOŚĆ MARII ARBATOWEJ
In Search of Oneself. Autobiographic Works by Maria Arbatova
Author(s): Martyna Z. Kowalska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: autobiography; auto-ethnography; sex discrimination; the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Summary/Abstract: The article aims to analyse autobiographic works by Maria Arbatova. In her dramas, memoirsand short stories from the 1990s, the author exposes the difficult life of Soviet women. Arbatova also addresses issues officially omitted in the USSR, such as violence against women, sex discrimination,abortion, lack of specialised psychological care. The importance of the discussed problems allows us to define the works of Arbatova as engaged literature. The vast amount of autobiographic issues and the author’s sense of a mission makes one see the autobiographic prose by Arbatova as autoethnography.
Book: Kobieta w oczach kobiet. Kobiece (auto)narracje w perspektywie transkulturowej
- Page Range: 101-110
- Page Count: 10
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: English, Polish
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