The Polish American Woman: Writing Her Self

Wednesday, November 17 at 6:30 pm
Zoom
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents a webinar The Polish American Woman: Writing Her Self by Prof. Grażyna Kozaczka, based on her book Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction.
The author’s intro to the lecture:
This talk, Polish American Women: Writing Her Self, will apply a literary lens to a discussion of identity/self of immigrant and ethnic women. What is it that women fiction writers reveal to us about their Polish American characters? What kind of immigrant or ethnic woman appears in their fiction and what do we learn about constructing ethnic and gender identity while drawing from both worlds: the old world of Polish traditions and the new world of the American present? Questions like these reside at the center of my most recent book, Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction, because they have been a part of my own search of identity – identity of an immigrant woman from Poland, who left her home country as an adult and had to reconstruct her self in the United States. https://washington.zoom.us/j/91810605915#success