Convention and Revolution Issue Editors MONIKA RUDAŚ-GRODZKA, KATARZYNA NADANA-SOKOŁOWSKA, ANNA NASIŁOWSKA, KAROLINA KRASUSKA, EMILIA KOLINKO
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english edition 1 2020 Convention and Revolution issue editors MONIKA RUDAŚ-GRODZKA, KATARZYNA NADANA-SOKOŁOWSKA, ANNA NASIŁOWSKA, KAROLINA KRASUSKA, EMILIA KOLINKO ANNE BRINTON “One of the Large-Throated Frogs:” Martha Foster and the Politics of Resistance CYNTHIA HUFF Mind the Gaps: Victorian Women Writing Subversion Into the Archive KATARZYNA NADANA-SOKOŁOWSKA Anna Iwaszkiewiczowa: Fear of Writing as a Fear of …? ANDREA PETŐ Revisiting the Life Story of Júlia Rajk MONIKA RUDAŚ-GRODZKA Bronisława Waligórska Dreaming SIDONIE SMITH and JULIA WATSON The Archives of Those Who Write Themselves teksty drugie · Institute of Literary Research Polish Academy of Sciences index 337412 · pl issn 0867-0633 EDITORIAL BOARD Agata Bielik-Robson (uk), Włodzimierz Bolecki, Maria Delaperrière (France), Ewa Domańska, Grzegorz Grochowski, Zdzisław Łapiński, Michał Paweł Markowski (usa), Maciej Maryl, Jakub Momro, Anna Nasiłowska (Deputy Editor-in-Chief), Leonard Neuger (Sweden), Ryszard Nycz (Editor-in-Chief), Bożena Shallcross (usa), Marta Zielińska, Tul’si Bhambry (English Translator and Language Consultant), Justyna Tabaszewska, Marta Bukowiecka (Managing Editor) ADVISORY BOARD Edward Balcerzan, Stanisław Barańczak (usa) , Małgorzata Czermińska, Paweł Dybel, Knut Andreas Grimstad (Norway), Jerzy Jarzębski, Bożena Karwowska (Canada), Krzysztof Kłosiński, Dorota Krawczyńska, Vladimir Krysinski (Canada), Luigi Marinelli (Italy), Arent van Nieukerken (the Netherlands), Ewa Rewers, German Ritz (Switzerland), Henryk Siewierski (Brasil), Janusz Sławiński , Ewa Thompson (usa), Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Tamara Trojanowska (Canada), Alois Woldan (Austria), Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska ADDRESS Nowy Świat 72, room a40, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland phone +48 22 657 28 07, phone/fax +48 22 828 32 06 e-mail: [email protected] www.tekstydrugie.pl GRAPHIC DESIGN Marcin Hernas | tessera.org.pl LANGUAGE EDITING Matthew Chambers, Karolina Krasuska, AND PROOFREADING Rafał Pawluk TYPESETTING Publishing House of the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences This volume is co-funded by the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, through the “Programme for the Development of Humanities” for 2018–2023, project number 11h 17 0143 85, financing amount pln 1 800 000. teksty drugie · 1 [14 ] · 2020 index 337412 · pl issn 0867-0633 other special issues Holocaust in Literary and Cultural Studies Anthropology in Literary Studies Postcolonial or Postdependence Studies? Nonfiction, Reportage, Testimony The Humanities and Posthumanism Visual Literacy Memory and Place Literature and Society Migrant Literature teksty drugie · Institute of Literary Research Polish Academy of Sciences index 337412 · pl issn 0867-0633 EDITORIAL BOARD Agata Bielik-Robson (uk), Włodzimierz Bolecki, Maria Delaperrière (France), Ewa Domańska, Grzegorz Grochowski, Zdzisław Łapiński, Michał Paweł Markowski (usa), Maciej Maryl, Jakub Momro, Anna Nasiłowska (Deputy Editor-in-Chief), Leonard Neuger (Sweden), Ryszard Nycz (Editor-in-Chief), Bożena Shallcross (usa), Marta Zielińska, Tul’si Bhambry (English Translator and Language Consultant), Justyna Tabaszewska, Marta Bukowiecka (Managing Editor) ADVISORY BOARD Edward Balcerzan, Stanisław Barańczak (usa) , Małgorzata Czermińska, Paweł Dybel, Knut Andreas Grimstad (Norway), Jerzy Jarzębski, Bożena Karwowska (Canada), Krzysztof Kłosiński, Dorota Krawczyńska, Vladimir Krysinski (Canada), Luigi Marinelli (Italy), Arent van Nieukerken (the Netherlands), Ewa Rewers, German Ritz (Switzerland), Henryk Siewierski (Brasil), Janusz Sławiński , Ewa Thompson (usa), Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Tamara Trojanowska (Canada), Alois Woldan (Austria), Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska ADDRESS Nowy Świat 72, room a40, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland phone +48 22 657 28 07, phone/fax +48 22 828 32 06 e-mail: [email protected] www.tekstydrugie.pl GRAPHIC DESIGN Marcin Hernas | tessera.org.pl LANGUAGE EDITING Matthew Chambers, Karolina Krasuska, AND PROOFREADING Rafał Pawluk TYPESETTING Publishing House of the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences english edition 1 2020 special issue Institute of Literary Research-Polish Academy of Sciences www.tekstydrugie.pl theory of literature · critique · interpretation “Pro Cultura Litteraria” Association 2 table of contents Convention and Revolution foreword 5 ANNA NASIŁOWSKA Documents and Women Manifesto 10 MONIKA RUDAŚ-GRODZKA In the Archives of Women’s Writing essays 17 JULIA LEWANDOWSKA “Am I That Body?”: Mystical Bodies and Polyphonic Bodies in the Early Modern Nuns’ Spiritual Autobiographies 36 MAGDALENA OŻARSKA Frances Burney Gazes at Animals. Or Is It Women? Evidence from Her Life Writing 51 NATALIIA VOLOSHKOVA Aspiring to Freedom: Mary Hamilton’s Life Writing 61 ANNE Y. BRINTON “One of the Large-Throated Frogs”: Martha Foster and the Politics of Resistance and Accommodation in the Antebellum South 79 ZSUZSA TÖRÖK Manuscript Culture and Nineteenth- Century Women’s Life Writing: The Diaries of Baroness Jozefa Wesselényi 90 EMILIA KOLINKO Cas-cou: a Strong Woman! The Divided “I” in Anna Moszyńska’s The Letters and Diaries (1850) 109 PHILIPPE LEJEUNE The Personal Journal of Émilie Serpin (1863–1881) 124 SVETLANA TOMIĆ Rediscovering Serbian Women’s Memoirs: Gendered Comparison in a Historical Context 140 MONIKA RUDAŚ-GRODZKA Bronisława Waligórska Dreaming 164 CYNTHIA HUFF Mind the Gaps: Victorian Women Writing Subversion Into the Archive 180 NATALIJA JAKUBOVA Constructions of Parenthood in the Autobiographical Writings of Irena Solska (1875–1958) 191 ANNA FRĄCZEK-CZAPLA Letters of Galician Rural Women to the Editors of the Piast During the First World War 201 KAROLINA KRASUSKA Mina Loy and the Function of the Autobiographical: Revisiting the Long Poem “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose” 216 KATARZYNA NADANA- Anna Iwaszkiewiczowa: -SOKOŁOWSKA Fear of Writing as Fear of…? 235 GRACE PUNDYK Reading the Invisible: Letters Between the Living and the Dead 257 ANNA DŻABAGINA The Mourning Diaries. Hanna Nałkowska’s Journal (1942–1945) 271 MARIA PRUSSAK Anna Minkowska – A Duty to Remember 280 ANDREA PETŐ Revisiting the Life Story of Júlia Rajk 292 ANNA PAWLIK “The State Helps You, So You Help the State.” Illness and Recovery in a Memoir Written by Zofia J. for a State Sanctioned Creative Writing Competition 305 KATARZYNA STAŃCZAK- The Autobiographical Self in the Service -WIŚLICZ of History: Martial Law Period Diaries Written by Women, 1981–1983 322 SIDONIE SMITH The Archives of Those Who AND JULIA WATSON Write Themselves: What and Where Are They? Foreword Anna Nasiłowska Documents and Women Anna Nasiłowska – Professor at the Polish Academy of DOI: 10.18318/td.2020.en.1.1 / ORCID: 0000-0002-6171-5662 Sciences, Institute of Literary Research, also a poet and writer, since 2017 President of The Association of Polish Writers. She is a member of the research team here is no equivalent term to “life writing” in Polish – a di- Women Archive Trect translation exists, but it refers specifically to the works (Archiwum Kobiet) of the bard and poète maudit Edward Stachura. Perhaps the and the deputy editor closest phrase in terms of content is the somewhat long-wind- of Teksty Drugie. Her ed “personal document literature,” used by Roman Zimand in recent publications include, among other a book interpreting the diary of Adam Czerniaków, the head of books, a biography of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto. In collaborating with the Maria Pawlikowska- occupying powers, up to a certain point Czerniaków hoped Jasnorzewska (2010), that by doing his job he could limit the number of victims or selected works by delay the murderous plan, but the beginning of the Grossaktion Stefania Zahorska (2010), a book of liquidating the ghetto led him to commit suicide. His journal historical reportage has evident value as a document, but its personal nature and titled Wolny agent the entire dramatic context in which it was written make it an Umeda i druga existential testimony and psychological profile – something Japonia (Free agent particularly important for documents of the Holocaust. One of Umeda and another Japan) (2013), Dyskont the objectives of Zimand’s essay about Czerniaków was to cre- słów (Word discount ate an interpretive framework for writings that often do not fit store) (2016). Co- into “literature” defined in terms of belonging to strictly literary editor of Encyklopedia genres such as the novel, drama, or lyric poem. The merits of gender (Gender a broader perspective and abandoning narrow generic con- encyclopedia) (2014). In 2019 she published straints are obvious for testimonies and diaries written under the one volume the pressure of dramatic circumstances. history of Polish When discussing works by women, the normative perspec- literature Historia tive also would exclude what for many reasons seems most literatury polskiej. 6 convention and revolution interesting. The dividing line between the field of “literature” and the domain of personal documents has always been fluid and movable; for example, the diaries of Zofia Nałkowska and Maria Dąbrowska are part of the canon of twentieth-century Polish literature now, but this only happened after years, and also required enor- mous work from the editors, Hanna Kirchner and Tadeusz Drewnowski, spanning multiple stages. What else remains to be discovered? The Women’s Archive, an in- terdisciplinary team based at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Acad- emy of Sciences, is working on personal documents written by women, mostly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Previously,