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Heterotopia i literatura narodowa w Dzienniku argentyńskim Witolda Gombrowicza

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Mandolessi S.

Rocznik Komparatystyczny

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2011

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vol. 2

p. 245-264

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As David Damrosch claims in his work World Literature. National Context (2003), literature should not be perceived only from a national, limiting, perspective. A literary text always balances between the culture of its origin and the culture of the receiver, it is “connected to both cultures, circumscribed by neither alone”. This is particularly true for the texts of authors in exile. The article of Silvana Mandolessi, now translated into Polish, is an attempt to analyse the Diary of Witold Gombrowicz (in Argentina known as Argentinian Diary) in the context of two cultures: the national culture of the writer (Polish) and the his adopted nationality (Argentinian). Mandolessi claims that in the Diary the tension between these two cultures and spaces is significant. She refers to the notion of “speculative border intellectual” (introduced by Abdul JanMohamed) that combines two cultures into a new syncretic form. It should be emphasized, however, that a critical attitude towards both cultures is maintained. Mandolessi analyses the work of Witold Gombrowicz from this new combined perspective as a piece of travel writing as well as an example of the typical heterotopia (a term borrowed from Michel Foucault). For Mandolessi continuous displacement constitutes a generative background for the Diary. Mar de Plata, Cordoba, Santiago del Estero – all these areas of the Argentinian province are heterotopias in a way that Gombrowicz’s description cumulates in one place various spaces which sometimes are not compatible, similarly to the theatrical stage that contains series of strange scenes. For Mandolessi the function of heterotopias created by Gombrowicz is a compensatory one.

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Je suis Shakespeare: The Making of Shared Identities in France and Europe in Crisis

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Fayard N.

Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance

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2019

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vol. 19

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issue 34

31-53

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This essay investigates the ways in which Shakespearean production speaks to France and wider European crises in 2015 and 2016. The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet were directed by Jérôme Hankins and Eric Ruf respectively in December 2015 and reflected significant contemporaneous issues, including: (1) two Paris terrorist attacks which sent shock waves throughout France and Europe; (2) the belief that shared identities were under threat; (3) concerns over shifting power dynamics in Europe. The portrayal of these issues and their reception bring into question the extent to which cultural productions can help to promote social change or shape perceptions of national and pan-European events. This essay focuses on whether the plays successfully complicate binary narratives around cultural politics in a context of crises by creating alternative representations of difference and mobilities. It concludes that appropriating Shakespeare’s cultural authority encourages some degree of public debate. However, the function of Shakespeare’s drama remains strongly connected to its value as an agent of cultural, political and commercial mobility, ultimately making it difficult radically to challenge ideologies.

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Wende-Erfahrung zwischen Utopie und Dystopie in Lutz Seilers Romanen

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Gortych D.

Acta Neophilologica

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2023

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vol. XXV/2

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Twórczość jednego z najwybitniejszych współczesnych pisarzy niemieckich, Lutza Seilera, często jest rozpatrywana w kontekście przemian politycznych z lat 1989/1990. Zarówno poetyckie krajobrazy dzieciństwa ze skażonych uranem terenów byłego NRD w tej poezji i prozie eseistycznej, jak i dwa heterotopiczne światy w powieściach Kruso (2014) i Stern 111 (2020) zdają się dopuszczać takową lekturę. Jednak w tej postenerdowskiej literaturze zawarta jest także poetycka analiza indywidualnego i zbiorowego doświadczenia egzystencjalnego związanego z przełomem politycznym, prowadzona pod kątem jego utopijnego i dystopijnego potencjału. Jak szybko utopia może się przekształcić w dystopię, zostanie ukazane na przykładzie wybranych heterotopii w prozie Seilera.

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The work of one of the most important contemporary German authors, Lutz Seiler, is often viewed against the backdrop of the German Reunion of 1989/1990. Both the poetic childhood landscapes of the uranium-contaminated former GDR areas in his poetry and short prose, and the two heterotopic novel worlds in Kruso (2014) and S t e r n 111 (2020) seem to permit such a reading. But much more is offered in this literature: a poetic examination of the individual existential and collective experience of the reunification and of their utopian and dystopian manifestations and potentials. How quickly a utopia f lips over into a dystopia is shown on the basis of heterotopias in Seiler’s prose

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Heterotopia i literatura narodowa w Dzienniku argentyńskim Witolda Gombrowicza

Je suis Shakespeare: The Making of Shared Identities in France and Europe in Crisis

Wende-Erfahrung zwischen Utopie und Dystopie in Lutz Seilers Romanen