Abstract
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 The paper discusses the issues related to the biographical research perspective and the role of ego-documents in modern humanities. These considerations focus on autobiographical narratives of women exiled to Siberia in the 19th century, both those who were sentenced or went there voluntarily. Different forms of women’s narratives were analysed, namely a memoir of Helena Skirmuntowa (1827–1874), written in the years 1863–1867, and a diary of Maria Obuchowska-Morzycka (1841–1911?), who wrote it 40 years after her life in exile. The autobiographical research model adopted in the paper focuses not only on the questions regarding the autobiographical context of ego-documents but also on biographical and autobiographical identity of the authors, connected with the description of their life, experiences, emotions as well as their attitude to the outside world and relations with other people.
Highlights
A perspective, exemplified by personal documents of Polish women deported to Siberia in the 19th century, allows for their multi-layer analysis and a formulation of a number of research questions about the significance of autobiographical reflections included in women’s memoirs, diaries and letters
What is important is their historical context and a specific transfer of the researcher into the historical reality, marked by subjective perception of the past reality held by female authors of ego-documents and, to some extent, inevitable self-censorship, resulting from political conditions of the times when the documents were written
Ego-documents occupy a special place in the reflection on the biographies of women living in Siberian exile in the 19th century
Summary
A perspective, exemplified by personal documents of Polish women deported to Siberia in the 19th century, allows for their multi-layer analysis and a formulation of a number of research questions about the significance of autobiographical reflections included in women’s memoirs, diaries and letters. Diaries and letters of the 19th century women who were either exiled to Siberia or went there voluntarily with their loved ones, husbands or fiancés, are the source base for the present considerations.
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