(Auto)biografia pioniera. Dziennik i listy Adolfa Januszkiewicza
The (Auto)Biography of a Pioneer: Adolf Januszkiewicz’s Diary and Letters

Summary/Abstract: Gaibulina discusses how the Polish exile Adolf Januszkiewicz (1803-57) came to be represented as a pioneer and discoverer of the Central Asian terra incognita. His private correspondence and travel journal became an explorer’s work of travel writing. To trace this development Gaibulina draws on the theory of writing practices and analyses subsequent stages of editorial work. She shows how the transition from one genre of writing to another (diary, epistolary writing, print) directly influences the content of the message. She also asks what role the text originally had in the writer’s life, as well as its dialogical and intertextual relations.

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