Nadieżda Durowa i początki rosyjskiej autobiografii

• Authors: Bożena Karwowska

Title variants

EN

Nadezda Durowa and the Beginnings of Russian Autobiography

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

W artykule przedstawiono postać autorki pierwszej rosyjskiej autobiografii, Nadieżdy Durowej, która w męskim przebraniu spędziła dziewięć lat jako oficer w rosyjskiej armii. Szczególną uwagę autorka zwraca jednak na dopisaną po latach do zapisków z okresu kampanii napoleońskiej część wstępną, w której Durowa opisała swoje dzieciństwo. Poza poruszeniem tematyki transgenderowej, stosunkowo często podnoszonej w stosunku do Durowej, opis ten pozwala na pokazanie świata kobiet w Rosji i na Ukrainie w początkach XIX wieku, a także na zarysowanie wstępnej mapy różnic pomiędzy kobiecymi postaciami arcydzieł literatury rosyjskiej (autorstwa mężczyzn) a narracją osobistą opartą na doświadczeniach ze świata kobiecego.

EN

This text presents Nadezhda Durova, the author of the first Russian autobiography, who, in male clothing, spent nine years as an officer in the Russian army. The special interest is paid to the introductory part in which Durova returns, after many years, to her diary notes from the period of the Napoleonic campaign, adding in a description of her own childhood. Apart from the commotion of the transgender theme, raised relatively often in relation to Durova, this description allows for a view into the world of women in Russia and Ukraine at the beginning of the 19th century, as well as a preliminary mapping of the differences between female figures in the masterpieces of the Russian literary canon (as written by men) and a personal narration, based on experiences in a woman’s world.

Keywords

PL

autobiografia; gender; pisarstwo kobiece; literatura rosyjska

EN

autobiography; gender; women writers; Russian literature

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Autobiografia. Literatura. Kultura. Media
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1(2)
• Pages: 153–162

Contributors

author

Bożena Karwowska

• University of British Columbia

References

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Identifiers

ISSN

2353-8694