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A Different War Story

Hanna Malewska’s “Czyste mieszkanie” (“Clean House”)

Summary/Abstract: The paper refers to Hanna Malewska’s short story on the Warsaw II World War Underground. The piece, which shifts interest from sequence of events to a record of traumatic experience of an individual under occupation, is linked to a formula of characteristic of the woman writer’s camouflaged autobiography. The fundamental writing mode is the creation of few literary roles rewritten as a multidimensional “collected picture” of women conspirators. The most crucial reading trope is connected to displaying a woman style of actions and conspiracy experience complemented with unilateral male war history. At the same time, borderline situations of threat, fear, solidarity and responsibility included into the story are such ones of which a woman perspective of experience in the piece become a simply human perspective.

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