Biography and Materiality. On Anna Marchewka’s Ślady nieobecności. [Traces of Absence. In Search for Irena Szelburg] Cover Image

Biografia i materialność. O Śladach nieobecności Anny Marchewki
Biography and Materiality. On Anna Marchewka’s Ślady nieobecności. [Traces of Absence. In Search for Irena Szelburg]

Author(s): Marcin Romanowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: biographical writing; materiality; somatopoetics; self-reflexive writing; subjectivity

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns problems of materiality in Ślady nieobecności. Poszukiwanie Ireny Szelburg [Traces of Absence. In Search for Irena Szelburg] by Anna Marchewka. The author of the article reveals originality of Marchewka’s biographical practice interpreting records of material experience, spatial experience and photographic ekphrasis. The main feature of this new mode of biographical writing is the stress on physical, somatic aspect of biographer’s experience, which indicates different kind of epistemology – embodied, engaging body as much as mind and emotions.

  • Issue Year: 4/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 193-205
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish