The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) The People in Perspective, the Perspective of the People

Chmielewska explores "people's histories" - works by Adam Leszczynski, Michal Rauszer and Kacper Poblocki - in the context of perspectivism, counter-history, rescue humanities, and, above all, potential histories (which reveal the possibilities of different narratives, and, indirectly, of other historical processes), accounts that analyse an alternative historical bios. The new type of historiography must tackle the task of reconstructing the sources and perspectives that are not properly present, it must recast the narratives of dominant politics, show us a different level of agency and subjectivity, question the consensus on what ought to be regarded as most important in national history and what should enter its canon. It is a unique archeology of the dominated and silent subject.