Niewdzięczność. Niepamięć. Nieczułość Przypadek kaszubskich herstorii
Ingratitude. Oblivion. Callousness The Case of Kashubian Herstories

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to capture changes in sensitivity in perceiving and speaking about certain particularly difficult (and often ignored and repressed) Kashubian herstory motifs. The author cites selected, most often discussed, and socially resonating social examples of rehabilitation, reinterpretation, and demanding the presence of Kashubian women on the pages of great history. Contemporary generations seek a suitable language so as to extract from oblivion the concealed and suppressed fate of Kashubian women (the author cites the example of, i.a. the rehabilitation of a female inhabitant of Słupsk, the last to be burned at the stake, and the story about dramatic experiences connected with wartime rape committed in the Kashubian region by Red Army soldiers in the spring of 1945, thus freeing from secondary victimisation and a stereotype concept of heroism). An interpretation of contemporary empathetic memory, citing individual women’s biographies, as reciprocated gratitude towards female predecessors.?

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