Bio(geo)grafia kobieca – przestrzenny wymiar doświadczenia

Abstract

The text is an attempt to analyse selected biographical works of Polish female writers in the context of cultural turns: the turn to materiality and the topographical turn. The biographies of authors such as Ewa Kuryluk, Agata Tuszyńska and Joanna Olczak-Ronikier constitute examples of narratives reflecting the foundations of non-anthropocentric history which stipulates that the human identity is built in relation with objects, and the material reality and the entire “nonhuman” sphere provide new possibilities for the interpretation of human existence. The creative aspirations of female authors of biographies are increasingly oriented towards the search for the anthropo-teo-centric aspect of history where the “divine” has no religious or moral nature but is an expression of the researcher’s confrontation with the mystery of spiritual, non-material aspects of human existence. In the consequence, biographisation of space and spatialisation of biographical narratives become a manifest of spiritual potential of modern (auto)biographical discourses.

Keywords

• biography
• topographical turn
• turn to materiality
• biographisation of space
• spirituality