Historia lokalna w dobie antropocenu. Geopaleontologiczna narracja Domu ojców Andrzeja Muszyńskiego

Abstract

The article discusses Andrzej Muszyński’s autobiographical book Dom ojców [House of Fathers] in the context of geological turn. In the first part, the author maps the centro-peripheral conditions of the Olkusz land. In the second part, using methods of environmental history, the author shows how, in the era of the Anthropocene and global challenges related to polycrisis, to establish a relationship with the local community. The article discusses how, by transcending the historical conditions of plebeianism, the writer finds a non-antagonistic identity and a positive relationship with his rural heritage. Muszyński reaches into deep time, into the vertical scale, to find the foundation of identity in prehistory. He finds support in a sense of connection with species of humans living on the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland since the Pleistocene, as well as with other organic and mineral actors of the Upland. The author introduces the category of the Anthropocene narrative of the Jurassic. She also utilizes the concept of geontology.