Emancypacje Heleny Rumiszewskiej w powieści Kazimiery Alberti Ci, którzy przyjdą a fenomen Nowej Kobiety

• Authors: Aleksandra E. Banot

Title variants

EN

The emancipation of Helena Rumiszewska from Kazimiera Alberti's novel Ci, którzy przyjdą ( Those Who Will Come) and the figure of the New Woman

Abstracts

EN

Current research into the life and work of Kazimiera Alberti, a poet and writer popular in the interwar period, connected from 1930 with Biała Krakowska, owes a great deal to Jacek Proszyk, who in 2009 staged a spectacle based on her biography at the Teatr Polski in Bielsko Biała called The Literary Salon of Kazimiera Alberti. It was followed by a spate of publications which, at this point, form a body of work ready for reassessment. This article deals with one of them, written by Karolina Pospiszil, where it is claimed that the heroine of Ci, którzy przyjdą (Those Who Will Come, 1934), Helena Rumiszewska, is both a stereotyped, idealized female character. Focusing on the episodes which belie that description and show a character of considerable complexity driven by an emancipatory desire. She is not free from doubt when faced with various dilemmas, yet does she represent the ideal of the New Woman? This article addresses this question and discusses the issue of emancipation in the broader context of bourgeois culture and class, i.e. the social milieu o which Helena belongs.

Keywords

EN

the interwar period; women's literature; emancipation; the bourgeois; the New Woman; Kazimiera Alberti (1898–1962); Polish literature of the 20 th century

PL

Kazimiera Alberti; literatura polska dwudziestolecia międzywojennego; mieszczaństwo; emancypacja; Nowa Kobieta

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33-55

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Aleksandra E. Banot

• Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/rl.2022.140955

Biblioteka Nauki

2172228