Witajcie w Polocenie. Polskie konteksty walki z katastrofą na przykładzie literatury okołopowodziowej po roku 1945

• Authors: Anna Barcz

Title variants

EN

Welcome to the Polocene: Polish aspects of fighting with floods as exemplified in literature after 1945

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to localise the representative examples of cultural models of behaviour and ways of adapting to the hazardous environmental changes. It is discussed on the basis of so called flood narratives in Polish literature such as Tomasz Różycki’s Bestiarium (2012) and Maciej Płaza’s Skoruń (2015). The author puts a question about the function of the polonocentric, combative model as a pattern of behaviour that emerges from these texts, as well as about the role of catholic religion in the society who cannot cope with more and more unpredictable catastrophic threats (like the flood). The author concludes that this situation is culturally contextualised and results in the social inability to accept a new ecological paradigm in the space and landscape management.

Keywords

PL

polocen; antropocen; groźne zmiany środowiskowe; powódź; polska literatura

EN

Polocene; anthropocene; hazardous environmental changes; flood; Polish literature and flood

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Prace Kulturoznawcze
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 129-142

Contributors

author

Anna Barcz

• Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin