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The article focuses on some aspects of city space in novels and tales of Polish writers (Huelle, Chwin, Kowalewski, Krajewski) debuting at the end of the 1980s. The works analyzed can be included in the typological category of so-called urban prose (proza urbanistyczna) since architectural background is strongly emphasized in their literary world in order to achieve maximum spatial realism through the detailed description of specific places. The article aims to define how the literary description of cities that have become part of the Polish state since World War II follows a broader project of historical-cultural roots and city genius reconstruction.
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This article shows the functioning of the social image of the victim and describes a particular attempt to overcome it, based on Halszka Opfer’s autobiographical books and Katarzyna Surmiak-Domańska’s reportage. This triptych proves that the adopted perspective determines the readingof the text and how difficult it is to break free from the social, as well as one’s own, framework.
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The work is a discussion of the book It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn, an American psychologist who deals with the therapy of inherited trauma. The author presents Wolynn’s basic assumptions regarding trauma and post-trauma and its therapeutic system and she emphasizes the popularizing aspect of the work. Afterwards, she indicates the possibilities and directions of interpretation given by Wolynn’s theory in the context of contemporary Polish prose that regards war traumas and is written by the so-called second generation.
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A form of poetic manifesto rooted in the avant-garde tradition is construed here as a performative project of the future. This temporal quality links it with the Derridean notion of “democracy to-come”. The presented paper attempts to trace an (im)possible connection between poetic manifestos and democracy in Poland after 1989. In pursuance of this objective, the paper briefly presents the only four 21st‑century Polish manifestos that attracted some critical and/or artistic attention: Meblowanie główww, Manifest Neolingwistyczny v. 1.1, Manifest poezji cybernetycznej and Manifest Rozdzielczości Chleba v. 1.7.
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The type and speed of changes that are taking place in today’s world as well as the architecture of the changing social relations and the mode of participating in space directly affect the nature of cities. The article is an attempt of showing the impact of changes in the modern city on urban tourism and connecting them with the image of the tourist identity of literary heroes in the latest Polish prose. The paper is based on findings from the fields of tourism anthropology, urban sociology and the prose of Polish authors born in the 70s and 80s. The combination of tourism and literary perspective aims at showing the relationship between new forms of urban tourism and the experience of urban tourists that is present in the Polish prose. The diagnosis is based on the distinction between two types of spaces of global cities: hyperspace and peripheral space, as well as reflections on the category of the tourist gaze.
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The purpose of this article is to present travel themes in the work of Andrzej Stasiuk with reference to the theory of Jahan Ramazani, an American literary scholar at the University of Virginia, author of the book A Transnational Poetics (2009). Ramazani’s theory can be summarized thusly: traveling is the essence of literature, and certain works (mainly of poetry) contain features similar to a journey: they are dynamic, variable, and cross borders. From this perspective Andrzej Stasiuk, author of travel prose, can also be presented as a (trans)national writer, specific and simultaneously universal. If one had to establish a (trans)national literary canon,  Stasiuk could represent the area of Polish culture.
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Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie podróżniczych wątków w twórczości Andrzeja Stasiuka na tle teorii Jahana Ramazaniego, amerykańskiego literaturoznawcy z University of Virginia, autora książki A Transnational Poetics (2009). Teoria Ramazaniego daje się streścić w następujący sposób: sensem literatury jest podróżowanie, a utwory – przede wszystkim poetyckie – posiadają cechy podobne do podróży, są dynamiczne, zmienne, przekraczają granice. W takiej perspektywie samego Andrzeja Stasiuka – autora prozy podróżniczej – można przedstawić jako pisarza (trans)narodowego, specyficznego, ale równocześnie uniwersalnego. Gdyby trzeba było ułożyć (trans)narodowy kanon literacki, to Stasiuk mógłby reprezentować obszar kultury polskiej.
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The article Are There Monsters in Dorota Wieczorek’s Strachopolis? analyzes selected elements of the topos of fear in the aponymous IBBY-awarded children’s novel. The author is interested in the contemporary version of the topoi of fear embedded in the landscape of globalized existence affected by the phenomenon of supermarketization and consumerism. In the article, the topic of fear highlighted by Wieczorek, is reinterpreted through the prism of a number of sociological theories, notably, Marc Augé’s concept of non-places, Zygmunt Bauman’s postmodern construct of “liquid life”, and Jeffrey J. Cohen’s cultural theory of monster. In Wieczorek’s novel, “monster” is a social metaphor for the excluded whom Bauman has called homo sacer. Their societal degradation in the fairy-tale futuristic metropolis is conditioned upon the post-panopticon power, exercised as persecution of the “Other’s” ethnic and gender identity. The excluded are thus outsiders, if not the discarded “social pariahs”. Besides presenting the sociological and cultural theme of the monstrum, the article further discusses the strategy of carnivalization put forward by Bachtin. This shift leads to the victory of the Others-Monsters as subjects within the liquid modernity. It makes the novel intriguing both on the textual and didactic plane.
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