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Herstory in Young Adult Fiction by Joanna Rudniańska Based on the Examples of „Rok Smoka” and „Kotka Brygidy”

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Slany K.
Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze
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2019
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issue 8
301-325
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The paper discusses young adult fiction by Joanna Rudniańska, whose works belong to the stream of non-conformist coming-of-age novels marked by experiences of exclusively teenage girls/women, developing in Poland since the 1990s. Both Rok Smoka and Kotka Brygidy emphasise the personal quality of teenage girls and women, and present their fates with a particular consideration of their fairly individualised processes of maturation and intentional development of their identities. The author of this paper employs feminist methodologies to emphasise the ambivalent, borderline, and negative female experiences in the analysed texts. She offers a detailed interpretation of how the protagonists of the above-mentioned novels experience the world; she applies a metaphorical and fantastic perspective of telling herstories, while searching for matrilineal traces, the phenomenon of sisterhood, drastic rituals inscribed in the feminine domain, and the special kind of coming-of-age which constitutes the starting point for personal and subjective herstories.
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“We Make Our Own Familia” – The Transfer of Memory in Patricia Nell Warren’s Billy’s Boy (1997)

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Mętrak J.
Filoteknos
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2021
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issue 11
262-271
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This paper aims at analyzing Patricia Nell Warren’s 1997 coming-of-age novel Billy’s Boy. Using the concept of the family as a social framework for memory (Halbwachs), as well as highlighting the role of objects (Olsen, Pomian) and photographs (Hirsch) in the process of memorizing William’s late father, the author demonstrates the traumatic impact his death has on the protagonist’s biological and chosen family. The paper shows that in Billy’s Boy, the third volume in her Harlan’s Story trilogy, Warren presents the experience of marginalized youth in the 1990s and interweaves it with her own life experience. Having previously written about the difficulties of being pushed to society’s margins in the early 1970s, in this novel, Warren familiarizes the readers with the representation of the life of the LGBTQ+ community in the early 1990s. By doing so, she shows the social changes that have happened and points to the ongoing social inequalities and homophobia. Notably, while Warren writes about the individual experience of William, the novel can become the source of next-generation memory for contemporary young readers, familiarizing them with the history of American LGBTQ+ community.
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