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Strategies for Expressing Power Relationships in the Slovenian Translation of Amitav Ghosh's Novel the Hungry Tide

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Karče T.

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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2013

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vol. 10

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issue 1

174-180

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The paper explores various narrative and rhetorical strategies for expressing power relationships in the Slovenian translation of Amitav Ghosh’s novel “The Hungry Tide”. Based on critical discourse analysis and the model of micro- and macrostructural shifts developed by van Leuven-Zwart, the paper provides a classification of the aforementioned strategies based on a pilot study of the source text and its translation into Slovenian. Illustrating the strategies with chosen examples, the paper then discusses the solutions adopted by the translator, focusing on general issues concerning the cultural transfer of relationships characterized by inequality in terms of social power.

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Od odrzucenia ironii ku jej afirmacji. Dorota Masłowska w poszukiwaniu „my” [From rejection to praise of irony. Dorota Masłowska in her search of “we”]

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Snochowska-Gonzalez C.

Studia Litteraria et Historica

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2016

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issue 5

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From rejection to praise of irony. Dorota Masłowska in her search of “we”The adventures of Dorota Masłowska, experienced between her novels Snow White and Russian Red and Honey, I Killed Our Cats, show a world where capitalism is the only way of organising reality. At the same time, it is a power affecting all types of relations: among people and between people and the world. The motif connecting Masłowska’s novels is the pursuit – through one’s writing – of liberation from the tools of the capitalist rule recorded and reinforced in the language. Attempts at comprehending this rule, undertaken always as an element of a writer’s ethos, are an extremely interesting path from destruction to praising conservatism and from combat for yourself (as defined by Hallward) – as an expression of a specific configuration of reality – to the singularity of a writer’s absolute. Taking this path requires a change to the use of two literary categories: grotesque and irony which remain Masłowska’s trademarks. At the same time, in her subsequent books grotesque and irony bring a new angle to her polyphonic writing. The author analyses the evolution of Masłowska’s writing making a (critical) use of the tools of postcolonial theory. She refers to the notions of “singular” and “specific” as used by Peter Hallward in his Absolutely Postcolonial. Writing between Singular and the Specific (2001). In his dissertation, Hallward presents two trends; a description thereof allows him for “the global and contemporary discrimination of fundamental approaches to our general conceptions of agency and context, self and other, politics and particularity.” Snochowska-Gonzalez refers Hallward’s categories to the subject of interest of the postcolonial theory (like freshly located and de-territorialisation, national determination and freedom from it). She develops the method of applying analytical tools presented in her article “Od melancholii do rozpaczy. O prozie Andrzeja Stasiuka” published in Studia Litteraria et Historica, no. 2 (2013).Od odrzucenia ironii ku jej afirmacji. Dorota Masłowska w poszukiwaniu „my” Przygody Doroty Masłowskiej, przeżywane na drodze od Wojny polsko-ruskiej pod flagą biało-czerwoną do Kochanie, zabiłam nasze koty, pokazują świat, w którym kapitalizm jest jedynym dostępnym sposobem organizowania rzeczywistości, a jednocześnie siłą, która nadaje kształt wszelkim relacjom – między ludźmi nawzajem i między ludźmi i światem. Nić łącząca powieści Masłowskiej to dążenie do wyzwolenia się – przez własną praktykę pisarską – od zapisanych i umocnionych w języku narzędzi kapitalistycznego panowania. Próby odnalezienia się wobec tego panowania, podejmowane zawsze jako element pisarskiego etosu, są niezwykle ciekawą drogą od burzycielstwa do pochwały konserwatyzmu i od walki o siebie samą, rozumianej po Hallwardowsku jako wyraz konkretnej konfiguracji rzeczywistości, do osobliwości pisarskiego absolutu. Przebycie tej drogi wymaga zmiany w użyciu dwóch kategorii literackich: groteski i ironii, które wciąż pozostają znakiem rozpoznawczym warsztatu Masłowskiej, a jednocześnie nadają – w kolejnych jej książkach – inny ton jej polifonicznemu pisarstwu.Autorka analizuje przemiany, jakim podlega pisarstwo Masłowskiej, przy (krytycznym) użyciu narzędzi teorii postkolonialnej. Wykorzystywane w tekście terminy „osobliwy” i „konkretny” (singular i specific) odwołują się do rozprawy Petera Hallwarda Absolutely Postcolonial. Writing between Singular and the Specific (2001). Hallward przedstawia w niej dwie tendencje, których opisanie pozwala mu na „całościowe i współczesne rozróżnienie zasadniczych ujęć ogólnych koncepcji sprawstwa i kontekstu, koncepcji ‘ja’ i ‘innego’, polityki i partykularności”. Snochowska-Gonzalez proponuje odniesienie kategorii Hallwarda do tematyki poruszanej przez teorię postkolonialną (takich jak zlokalizowanie i deterytorializacja, narodowe zdeterminowanie i wolność od niego). Autorka rozwija w tekście metodę zastosowania narzędzi analitycznych, przedstawioną w artykule Od melancholii do rozpaczy. O prozie Andrzeja Stasiuka, opublikowanym w piśmie „Studia Litteraria et Historica”, nr 2 (2013).

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Metafory kresu kolonizacji: Kapuściński – Antunes (wstępne rozpoznania)

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Nowacka B.

Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2018

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issue 13

87-98

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The article compares two books about the consequences of the Angolan Civil War which were written by two distinguished contemporary writers who took part in the events from the 1970s. One is Ryszard Kapuściński, the author of the literary reportage Another Day of Life who worked as a war correspondent for Polish Press Agency. Another one is António Lobo Antunes, the author of The Return of the Caravels – a novel about a young Portuguese soldier forced to defend the anachronistic order. While both authors sympathized with the opposing conﬂicting parties, they share a decidedly anti-colonial view. The criticism is voiced diﬀerently, though. Kapuściński condemns the very idea of colonial rule; Antunes’ scathing judgment centers around the national myths of his own country. Despite apparent diﬀerences, both books are complementary in depicting the end of African colonization.

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Limitations and Opportunities of Postcolonial Criticism

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Sosnowska D.

Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2012

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vol. 42

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Kresy (Polish Eastern Borderlands) in Polish Literature of 1918–2018. Significant Interpretative Perspectives

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Uliasz S.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2020

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issue 1

335-363

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The paper offers a comprehensive, synthetic account of the discourse on the subject of the Polish Eastern Borderland over the course of the last hundredyears. It analyses the ways in which the understanding of the notion of Kresy and “borderland”, as well as the strategies for presenting the term, have changed, including attempts to replace this category with other terms. Furthermore, the paper characterises the dynamics concerning the transformations of situational contexts that emerged in the period of the Second Polish Republic, developed during World War II, after 1945 (in the country and abroad) and continuing from the 1980s and1990s to the present. Significant interpretative perspectives include, among others, the trends in literary schools, the legends and myths of the Polish Eastern Borderland, the notion of the borderline of cultures, small homelands, and methodological phrases and breakthroughs (spatial turn, geopoetics, postcolonial criticism).

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The “Noble Savage”: Aristocracy, Slavery, Restoration Culture and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave

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Uściński P.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2017

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issue 26/1

43-54

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Evoking as historical and intertextual context the Restoration of English monarchy and the attendant political and cultural projects, chiefl y royalist, legitimizing and advocating the stability of power in the period, the paper discusses Aphra Behn’s novel Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave by looking at its literary representation of the African prince as a “noble savage” – a trope that may be found also in John Dryden’s and Jonathan Swift’s work. The paper pays due attention to the politics of Behn’s novel in terms of its ambiguous treatment of race, slavery and colonialism, and evokes the concepts of “iterability” and “Third Space” in order to engage in a deconstructive reading of the novel’s royalist project of cultural investment in such notions as nobility, hierarchy and order.

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Problem Kresów w literaturze polskiej lat 1918–2018. Znaczące perspektywy interpretacyjne

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Uliasz S.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2018

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vol. 13

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issue 8

17-42

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The paper offers a comprehensive, synthetic account of the Polish Eastern Borderland discourse on the subject over the course of the last century. It analyzes the ways in which the understanding of the notion of Kresy and “borderland”, as well as the strategies of presenting the term have been changing, including the attempts to replace this category with other terms. Furthermore, the paper characterizes the dynamics concerning the transformations of situational contexts which emerged in the period of the Second Polish Republic, developed in the times of World War II, after 1945 (in the country and abroad), and continue from the 80s and 90s of the twentieth century to our present. Significant interpretative perspectives include, among others, the trend of literary schools, the legend and myth of Polish Eastern Borderland, the notion of the borderline of cultures, small homelands, and methodological phrases and breakthroughs (spatial turn, geopoetics, postcolonial criticism).

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