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Płeć autobiograficznego „ja”. Przypadek Renáty Tyršovej
Gender of Authobiographical “Self”. The Case of Renáta Tyršová

Author(s): Marcin Filipowicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: feminist criticism; autobiography; biography; autobiographical “self”; Czech nationalism; female literary production

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper, is to try to use feminist and gender theories to read Slavic cultural material,as well as to complete the picture of diversity of Slavic gender orders. For this purpose, the paperfocuses on biographies written by Renáta Tyršová devoted to her father and husband. The analysisof this case requires using the feminist criticism of autobiography theory, which is hardly theoreticallyabsorbed within Slavistics. Article seeks to explore the complexities of the relationshipbetween female individual autobiographical “self”, structure of female gender in the bourgeoissociety of the 19th century, and finally collective idea of nationalism.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 261-276
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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