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'I am aware of the difficulties and I do not get disheartened': Wanda Dynowska’s Papers about India Collected in Tadeusz Pobożniak’s Archive

Authors :
Ewa Dębicka-Borek
Source :
Cracow Indological Studies, Vol 20, Iss 2 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2018.

Abstract

“I am aware of the difficulties and I do not get disheartened”: Wanda Dynowska’s Papers about India Collected in Tadeusz Pobożniak’s Archive The aim of the present paper is to discuss the process of self-creation discernible in hitherto unpublished letters written by Wanda Dynowska-Umadevi to Tadeusz Szukiewicz, her literary representative in Poland, acting on her behalf in 1938–1939. Besides discussing the documentary value of the letters, which, for instance, shed some light on Dynowska’s relationship with Tadeusz Pobożniak and her other eminent contemporaries, or contextualize the origin of selected volumes published afterwards with Biblioteka Polsko-Indyjska (Polish-Indian Library), I also try to show that the manner of Dynowska’s self-creation in the personal documents that predominantly concern the efforts to publish her articles intended to popularize India in Poland could have been shaped by the particular addressee of her letters, and thus culminated in Dynowska projecting herself in her own writings.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
17320917 and 24498696
Volume :
20
Issue :
2
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Cracow Indological Studies
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.26bc1f40ace54ebf945ae3915b0a99f3
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.20.2018.02.06