Maciej Laskowski, Silent strength from the margins
- Autor: Laskowski Maciej
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Wydanie I
Poznań 2026
Format 14,5x21 cm
ISBN 978-83-68006-61-2
DOI 10.48226/978-83-68668-61-2
s. 96
język: angielski
Silent Strength from the Margins examines five memoirs written by Polish women who emigrated to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Submitted to the Institute of Social Economy’s 1936 memoir-writing competition, these testimonies offer rare insight into female experiences of migration, labour, domestic life, language, adaptation, and emotional endurance.
Combining close reading with life-writing studies, feminist autobiography theory, migration studies, and the zwrot ludowy, the book re-centres voices often overshadowed in accounts of Polish-American history. It shows how ordinary immigrant women narrated hardship, silence, family obligation, cultural negotiation, and agency from within the margins of social and historical visibility.
