Słowa kluczowe: autopathography, illness/disability narratives, memoir, life writing, Hilary Mantel., migrant literature, (female) migrant writers, creolization, Vorpsi, Ibrahimi, Glissant, Gnisci, Albania, relationhips between Italy and Albania, generation gap, cultural memory, postcolonial studies, post-totalitarian identity, post-communist trauma, Tateusz Różewicz, Polish poetry, melancholy, loss, lack., Slavonic Studies, Slavic Studies, scholarship, politics, research directions, methodology