Kobiece archiwa – spiżarnie pamięci. Polityka tożsamości w (auto)biografiach kobiet po 1989 roku
Female archives – pantries of memory. Identity politics in women’s (auto)biographies after 1989

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to a selection of women’s (auto)biographies published in Poland after 2000. The author concentrates on two problems: firstly she proves that female (auto)biography can be included in the identity politics which in Poland is a part of transformation discourse and a reaction towards it. Women assume here the role of the chroniclers of family/national community, but are also the reproducers and guards of the social order. The narrators often disregard the “female experience of history:” womanhood is here transparent and its traces need to be searched in the gaps of the narrative. Secondly, the author shows that women’s (auto)biographies are not only a response to identity/memory politics but also a pertinent element of the process of producing the past subordinated to the stakes of contemporaneity. The author also points to recent trends in feminist studies in women’s (auto)biographies.

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