Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media


ISSN: 2353-8694     eISSN: 2719-4361    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/au.2025.2.25-08
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Issue archive / nr 2 (25) 2025
Biografia narkomanki. Narkotyki a pisarstwo kobiece
(The biography of a female drug addict. Drugs and women's writing)

Authors: Maksymilian Barski ORCID
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: drug literature comparative studies opium heroine women’s writing essay short stories
Whole issue publication date:2025
Page range:15 (105-119)
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Abstract

The text analyzes the functions of drugs in selected women's literature, using examples from the works of Emily Hahn (1905-1997) and Anna Kavan (1901-1968). Drugs are both a medium and a literary theme that allows for the inclusion of new voices and perspectives in the history of literature. Through comparative analysis, I attempt to demonstrate the significant influence that drugs have on women's writing, especially in the context of emancipation. Opium and heroin, through the authors' experiences, are transferred into the narrative and expand the previously known genre framework of (auto)biographical literature
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