%0 Journal Article
%T Mapping of Women’s Prose – on Meetings Transcending Boundaries and (Non-)Divergent Paths. A Few Reflexions on the Oeuvre of Polish and Czech Female Authors
%A Darska, Bernadetta
%J Konteksty Kultury
%V 2022
%R 10.4467/23531991KK.22.037.17504
%N Volume 19 Issue 4
%P 476-487
%K Polish prose, Czech prose, femininity in literature, sex, privacy, intimacy
%@ 2083-7658
%D 2022
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/mapowanie-prozy-kobiet-czyli-o-spotkaniach-ponad-podzialami-i-o-nie-rozmijaniu-sie-drog-kilka-refleksji-otworczosci-polskich-i-czeskich-autorek
%X The article is an attempt to consider the common points in the prose of Polish and Czech female writers. It does not constitute a closed story being presented in a categorical tone of recognitions based off of the summary of a given oeuvre’s stage. It is rather a reflexion resulting from stipulations, probability, possible time points of contact and overlapping of these themes that are mainly oscillating around the recovery of one’s own voice as well as privacy and intimacy. As the result, these reflections can be treated as an attempt at pointing out a community of experiences characteristic for a given sex, which rejects the dominating discourse and which focuses on individual experience that is oftentimes difficult to express and is exposed to embarrassment and isolation. The Polish and Czech female writers presented in the narrative of this text are speaking with their own voices and moreover they are speaking for other women as well, having noticed the public and political dimension of privacy and intimacy.