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The Problem of Authorial Identity in the Postwar Fiction of Maria Kuncewiczowa: the Gender Perspective

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Klecka A.

Ruch Literacki

2005

vol. 46

issue 4-5

437-452

This article deals with the issue of Maria Kuncewiczowa's authorial personality in its multifaceted complexity on the basis of her autobiographical and epistolary work from the postwar period. The first part of the article, entitled Search for Identity, examines the manner in which she was able to combine various elements of her personality into an integral authorial self. Its construction was connected with the process of writing, a series of acts aimed at establishing some kind of control over the outside world. At the same time, those acts can be seen as a factor in the continual metamorphoses of the authorial subject. It is also argued that Kuncewiczowa's turn towards autobiographical forms was motivated by her need to be in touch with other people and the desire to make herself accountable to the world at large. The second part of the article, called The Narrative Conception of Female Identity, advances the argument that Kuncewiczowa chose the autobiographical narration in order to find out more about herself and the world, to consolidate her fragmentary personality and to come to terms with her own body and sexuality. Moreover, the article argues that perceptions of femininity in Kuncewiczowa's works are as a rule embedded in the framework of social roles. Finally, it is noted that her views on 'Otherness', which she believed to be the product of both sexual difference and culture, were in advance of her time.

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