Autobiography as Complaint: Polish Social Memoir between the World Wars
Autobiography as Complaint: Polish Social Memoir between the World Wars
Author(s): Katherine LebowSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Центр независимых социологических исследований (ЦНСИ)
Keywords: Autobiography; Poland; Complaint; Interwar; Peasants; Sociology; Testimony
Summary/Abstract: This article considers life-writing as a form of grievance and complaint. In particular, it examines interwar Poland's answer to the "social memoir", or autobiographical writings by youth, workers, peasants, immigrants, the unemployed, and others, gathered by sociologists in memoir-writing competitions.
Journal: Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований
- Issue Year: 6/2014
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 13-26
- Page Count: 14