Saidiya Hartman and Wayward Biographies: What Can Black Herstories Do for the Polish “People’s Turn”? Cover Image

Saidiya Hartman i krnąbrne biografie. Co czarne herstorie mogą zrobić dla polskiego „zwrotu ludowego”?
Saidiya Hartman and Wayward Biographies: What Can Black Herstories Do for the Polish “People’s Turn”?

Author(s): Łukasz Kiełpiński
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Social history, Gender history, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: critical fabulation; slavery; race; counter-archive; emancipation; agency; people’s turn; women’s history;

Summary/Abstract: This article presents on the method of “critical fabulation”, developed by American academic Saidiya Hartman with a view to reconstructing lost biographies of black women from the period of slavery and shortly thereafter. Hartman’s controversial method finds its ethical and epistemological justification, which the author of the article tries to reconstruct. The study also discusses the possibility of adapting the technique of critical fabulation for the purpose of telling women’s stories as part of the Polish “people’s turn”.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 1-16
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish