Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media
Nadieżda Durowa i początki rosyjskiej autobiografii
(Nadezda Durowa and the Beginnings of Russian Autobiography)
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| ISSN: | 2353-8694 |
| Authors: |
Bożena
Karwowska
University of British Columbia |
| Keywords: | autobiography gender women writers Russian literature |
| Issue / book publication date: | 2014 |
| Page range: | 10 (153-162) |
| OAI-PMH: | Metadata |
 
 
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Abstract
This text presents Nadezhda Durova, the author of the first Russian autobiography, who, in male
clothing, spent nine years as an officer in the Russian army. The special interest is paid to the
introductory part in which Durova returns, after many years, to her diary notes from the period
of the Napoleonic campaign, adding in a description of her own childhood. Apart from the commotion
of the transgender theme, raised relatively often in relation to Durova, this description
allows for a view into the world of women in Russia and Ukraine at the beginning of the 19th
century, as well as a preliminary mapping of the differences between female figures in the masterpieces
of the Russian literary canon (as written by men) and a personal narration, based on
experiences in a woman’s world.
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