Choroba miejscem autobiograficznym
Disease as an Autobiographical Place

Representations of The Experience of Disease in the Personal Document Literature of Lesia Ukrainka (Analysis of an Autopathography)

Author(s): Marta Kaczmarczyk
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: disease; body; autobiographical place; Lesia Ukrainka; personal document; autopathography
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to reflect on the different representations of the experience of illness that come from the personal document literature of Lesia Ukrainka. The disease creates autobiographical places in the poet’s biography. We observe a gradual expropriation from biography and carnality. The disease creates a patient’s identity, forcing the poet to fight the enslavement of the body.

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