A Testimony or a Creation? About the Book Mama zawsze wraca [Mama Always Returns] by Agata Tuszyńska and Iwona Chmielewska Cover Image

Świadectwo czy kreacja? O książce Mama zawsze wraca Agaty Tuszyńskiej i Iwony Chmielewskiej
A Testimony or a Creation? About the Book Mama zawsze wraca [Mama Always Returns] by Agata Tuszyńska and Iwona Chmielewska

Author(s): Martyna Dymon
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Agata Tuszyńska; Iwona Chmielewska; Holocaust; picturebook; memory; testi mony;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to consider whether Agata Tuszyńska and Iwona Chmie lewska’s publication is a literary redefinition of the act of testimony. The author analyzes the relationship between text and image, at the same time referring to the life-writing trend. Moreo ver, the author raises questions about the relationship between the borrowed past and collective memory. In the article, the author also draws attention to the creation of a child’s perspective, which is mainly generated through the mother tongue. The parent is the only person who cre ates the imaginary synthesis of the individual elements of Polish culture in miniature. There fore, the author analyzes the stylization aspect of Tuszyńska’s story on the child’s perception, which often turns out to be simultaneously inscribing the extreme situation into the space of a fairy tale.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 1-11
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish