Abstract
The article contains a discussion of the subject taken in the family autobiography of Bożena Chrząstowska (mother) and Joanna Ciechanowska-Barnuś (daughter) entitled A double voice taken from life (Poznań 2015).The author analyzes selected elements of identity discourse, placing them in the historical and theoretical order. She indicates the main categories: family community, ethos of Greater Poland area, rooting, self-creation. She draws attention to the generational changes of the Polish gentry-intelligentsia culture, reflected also in the family history. She discusses the genre form of the analysed autobiography, finding in it the features of Silva Rerum. The author draws attention to the open composition, chronology, association, polyphony of narration, and the significance of emotions.
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