@ARTICLE{Szewczyk_Joanna_Herstory_2019, author={Szewczyk, Joanna}, number={No 4 (355)}, journal={Ruch Literacki}, pages={403-420}, howpublished={online}, year={2019}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka}, publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki}, abstract={This article deals with recent Polish herstory narrations, i.e. works of fiction that, while relying on distinctly literary techniques and devices, foreground the feminine experience of history, and moreover, may be associated with the so-called Herstory Turn in Polish humanities and cultural studies. This category of fictions includes also novels in which the herstory narration belongs to a female subject created by a male author, notably Jacek Dehnel’s Abbess Macryna (Matka Makryna), Ignacy Karpowicz’s Little Sonya (Sońka) and Jarosław Kamiński’s Just Lola (Tylko Lola). These three novels are analyzed with the aim of showing how their narrative strategy foregrounds the women narrators/main characters (acting as history’s true subjects), identifying the marks of authorial imitation of the feminine discourse, and, finally, asking the question about man’s status in an ostensibly feminine text. It seems that one way of answering it would be to point to the male author’s validating the feminine experience of history and ensuring that it can be heard.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Herstory narrations in contemporary Polish fiction}, URL={http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/113547/PDF/RL%204-19%202-Szewczyk.pdf}, doi={10.24425/rl.2019.130054}, keywords={Contemporary Polish literature, herstory narration, the Herstory Turn, the feminine subject, Jacek Dehnel (b. 1980), Ignacy Karpowicz (b. 1976), Jarosław Kamiński (b. 1968)}, }