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Acknowledgments
The translation of articles by Lucyna Marzec, Agnieszka Gajewska, Adriana Kovacheva, and Antonina Tosiek was supported by the School of Languages and Literatures, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. The guest editors would like to thank Eva C. Karpinski for her invaluable comments and help in making this issue possible. She has particularly contributed to editing Lucyna Marzec’s article and Monika Browarczyk’s interview with Inga Iwasiów. We are also grateful to Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle for the opportunity she gave us to share research on life writing from Poland with a/b scholars and her support throughout the project. Needless to say, we are indebted to all the Authors for entrusting us with their texts.
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Notes
1 In this issue.
2 See Gilmore, p.2.
3 See Nycz; Iwasiów (Citation2004); Rodak; and Czermińska.
4 See Ulicka.
5 See Kasztenna.
6 See Balcerzan.
7 Zimand Citation1990.
8 Zimand Citation1979.
9 See Leociak Citation2004 and Citation2019.
10 See Pekaniec Citation2013 and Citation2020.
11 See Fitas Citation2021.
12 See Czermińska Citation2019.
13 Czermińska Citation2019, p. 13.
14 Czermińska Citation2019, p. 33.
15 Teksty Drugie, Number 1, 2020.
16 See Rodak 2011.
17 Gajewska Citation2019.
18 See Iwasiow Citation2020.
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Notes on contributors
Monika Browarczyk
Monika Browarczyk (PhD, D. Litt.) is an associate professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and since 2020 has been Head of the Section on South Asian Studies. In 2019 she published her monograph devoted to the study of female autobiographical literature in Hindi entitled Narrating Lives, Narrating Selves. Women’s Autobiographies in Hindi. In 2018, with Lidia Sudyka, she co-edited a volume on Life Writing from South Asia (“Opening up Intimate Spaces: Women’s Writing, Autobiography and Biography in South Asia,” Cracow Indological Studies Vol. XX), and in 2021 another guest issue of Cracow Indological Studies: History and Other Engagements with the Past in Modern South Asian Writing/s, Vol. XXIII N 1-2, https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.23.2021.01.00. She also edited a bilingual edition of poetry translations from Hindi to Polish: Bachchanalia, selected poems by Harivansh Rai Bachchan (2013). She has published many articles on women’s autobiographical writing in Hindi.
Dagmara Drewniak
Dagmara Drewniak (PhD, D.Litt) is an associate professor at the Department of Canadian Literature, Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research interests focus on Polish and Central and Eastern European immigrants in Canada and Australia, migration literature, life writing, postcolonial literature, and contemporary Canadian literature. She is the author of the monograph Forgetful Recollections: Images of Central and Eastern Europe in Canadian Literature (2014) and The Figure of Home. Essays on Anglophone Literature of Migrants from Polish Territories and their Descendants in Canada (2022, in Polish, recipient of Pierre Savard Award 2023) as well as co-author of The Self and the World: Aspects of the Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary North American Literary Memoir by Women (with A. Rzepa and K. Macedulska, 2018). She has also published dozens of scholarly articles on migration and autobiographical literature, as well as Canadian, British, and Australian poetry and prose. She is currently a President of The Polish Association for Canadian Studies and a member of the Canadian Polish Research Institute in Toronto.
Lucyna Marzec
Lucyna Marzec (PhD) is an assistant professor in the Department of Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature and Translation Studies at the Institute of Polish Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University. She is Editor-in-Chief of Czas Cultury (Time of Culture, https://czaskultury.pl/english-issue/) and of Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. She is a co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Gender and Cultural Identity at AMU and a member of the Women’s Archive team at the Institute of Literary Research (Polish Academy of Sciences). She is currently co-founding the CEPUUS Woman Writers in History network. Her main academic interests are feminist criticism and intimacy, the issue of archives and women’s writing. She has published several books (including Po kądzieli. Pisarstwo feministyczne Jadwigi Żylińskiej/On the Distaff Side. Jadwiga Żylińska’s Feminist Writing, 2014; Spor o Granicę Zofii Nałkowskiej/The Polemic over Zofia Nałkowska’s Granica, 2019) and dozens of academic articles, including her recently published Papiery po Iłłakowiczownie. Archiwum jako przedmiot badań/Iłłakowiczowna’s Papers. The Archive as Research Object (2022).