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Оксана Пухонська, Літературний вимір пам’яті, Академвидав, Київ 2018, 304 сс.

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Grebenyuk T.

Studia Polsko-Ukraińskie

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2019

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vol. 6

211-214

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“The golden notebook” as trauma narrative

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Kamińska P.

Acta Philologica

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2016

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issue 49

249-260

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This paper aims to read Doris Lessing’s “The golden notebook” as a literary experiment, which struggles to find meaning amid fragmented narratives. Aiming to reflect the structure of the experience of mental breakdown, the novel is abundant with literary strategies meant to enhance the understanding of the Real (in Lacanian sense) experience of the main protagonist. Ultimately, all of the stylistic endeavours are doomed to failure, and the experience which cannot be directly communicated surfaces as traumatic: it escapes both chronology and understanding; it renders the protagonist helpless against reality, which she perceives as full of violence. The reason behind the breakdown is elusive, yet it seems to be grounded in historical reality of the twentieth century. Through its inability to convey a message in a conventional novelistic form, “The golden notebook” emerges as a witness to the traumatic nature of human experience of the modern era.

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„Niech się pan nie wyteatrza!” O „Chrabąszczach” Mariana Pankowskiego

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Chałupnik A.

Pamiętnik Literacki

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2016

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vol. 107

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issue 2

137-160

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W artykule przedstawiona jest analiza i interpretacja dramatu „Chrabąszcze” Mariana Pankowskiego: do modnej paryskiej scenograf, wiele lat po wojnie, dociera dziennikarz z Polski, żeby zapisać historię jej ocalenia z Holokaustu. Róża Karp jest bowiem ostatnią żyjącą przedstawicielką liczącej przed wojną kilka tysięcy osób gminy żydowskiej w jego galicyjskim miasteczku. Lokalne władze chcą upamiętnić zagładę owej społeczności. Pankowski zderza prywatny i publiczny wymiar pamięci, obnaża mechanizmy funkcjonowania pamięci zbiorowej i pokazuje jej performatywny charakter – jako pola ścierania się różnych punktów widzenia i interesów. Dramat Pankowskiego interpretowany jest z różnych perspektyw teoretycznych, m.in.: psychoanalizy, studiów nad traumą oraz zorientowanych genderowo badań nad Zagładą.

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The article offers an analysis and interpretation of Marian Pankowski’s “Chrabąszcze (Bugs)”: many years after the war, a journalist from Poland reaches for a fashionable Paris set designer in order to take down the story of her rescue from the Holocaust. Róża Karp, the set designer, is the last in his Galician town living representative of a Jewish community which accounted for a few thousand people. The local authorities want to commemorate the society’s extermination. Pankowski juxtaposes the private and public dimension of memory, unmasks collective memory’s functioning mechanisms and shows its performative character as a field of crashing points of view and interests. Pankowski’s drama is interpreted from many theoretical perspectives, inter alia, psychoanalysis, trauma studies, and gender-oriented Shoah studies.

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Yearning for Beauty. The Expression of Melancholy in Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”

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Kozłowska A.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2018

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issue 9 "Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia"

79-86

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The purpose of the paper is to discuss the sources and results of melancholy in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye with reference to Dominick LaCapra’s theory based on a distinction between loss and absence. LaCapra claims that the former concept refers to a particular event, while the latter cannot be identified with any specific point in time or object. What is more, LaCapra admits that absence may result in melancholy, i.e. the state in which the individual remains possessed by a negative emotion because there is no possibility of working it through. The idea of absence causing melancholy is exemplified by the protagonist of The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove. The girl dreams about acquiring blue eyes that belong to the prevailing white model of beauty which excludes African-American features. The feeling of absence is intensified by the U.S. education system aimed at promoting the lifestyle and characteristics of white Americans, her own mother who prefers serving white people to taking care of her own children, and the peers that constantly stigmatize Pecola for ugliness. Consequently, she becomes obsessed with the unattainable blue eyes. Since there is no chance for her to be accepted and thus cope with the absence of white features, the girl suffers from melancholy which leads her to insanity and exclusion from society.

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Książka wyjścia

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Tokarska-Bakir J.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2015

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issue 25

67-92

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The text “The Book of Exit” delineates a perspective of animal studies understood as a consequence of the trauma theory and the Holocaust studies. At the foundations of the article are the views of Dominick LaCapry from 2004-2014, included by the author in the context of the current Polish and American cultural debates. In this interpretation the posthumanities and monster studies-vividly developing nowadays-are not only transformation but also overpower the melancholy of studies into trauma, completed at the price of parting from an individualistically crafted version of a liberal subject.

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Opisać wojnę? Doświadczenie traumy w chorwackim dyskursie autobiograficznym i literaturze świadectwa o wojnie w byłej Jugosławii (1991–1995)

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Szperlik E.

Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia

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2013

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vol. 1: Między pamięcią a zapomnieniem. Trauma postkomunistyczna

225-245

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The topic of the analysis is microhistory — personal, autobiographical novels, record of memories and testimony to the nightmare of the last war in Balkans (1991–1995). The poetics of testimony literature is not being constrained (E. Kazaz). Also in relation to World War II there is a question about the status of the modern Croatian culture as posttraumatic culture (A. Mach). The topic of trauma as katharsis in autobiographical literature is taken up by A. Zlatar, referring to testimonial narrative (S. Felman), testimony of victims and perpetrators (G. Agamben, P. Levi). The topic of rapes and mass unwanted pregnancies being a result of sexual abuse has already appeared in the 1980s while discussing the Holocaust literature in relation to the last war in Balkans (D. Ugrešić). Exile takes up the problem of ethos and depriving of one’s identity (self writing — M. Foucault) as well as experiencing trauma and working it through (D. LaCapra).

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Do Androids Have Nightmares About Electric Sheep? Science Fiction Portrayals of Trauma Manifestations in the Posthuman Subject in Frankenstein, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and ‘Nine Lives’

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Olsen I. M., Okuń-Jaśkowiak A., Głaz A., Kniaź-Hunek L., Bendrat A., Prażmo E., Terejko P., Szczypa P., Czemiel G., Antoszek E., Galant J., Komsta M., Frelik E., Waszkiewicz A., Oleszczuk A., Waszkiewicz A., Okuń-Jaśkowiak A.

New Horizons in English Studies

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2018

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issue 3

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This essay draws upon the contention that posthuman subjects, such as androids, clones, and robots, can experience psychological trauma. The aim of the paper is to examine this notion in three science fiction texts: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Ursula Le Guin’s short story ‘Nine Lives’. What these narratives illustrate is that trauma manifestations contribute to a disruption of ontological frameworks that regard categories such as ‘human’ and ‘non-human’ as permanent and distinct. As a result, it might be argued that these texts undermine anthropocentrism and invite a reconceptualising around the term ‘human’, but also around trauma as an experience that is conventionally understood as a primarily human experience. Science fiction is thereby a significant genre when it comes to debunking anthropocentric perspectives. Using posthuman theory and trauma studies, I argue here that these three texts portray their respective posthuman subjects as trauma victims, and further that they demonstrate how the experience of trauma carries with it the potential to bridge the gap between human and posthuman through the act of bearing witness to one another’s trauma.

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Оксана Пухонська, Літературний вимір пам’яті, Академвидав, Київ 2018, 304 сс.

“The golden notebook” as trauma narrative

„Niech się pan nie wyteatrza!” O „Chrabąszczach” Mariana Pankowskiego

Yearning for Beauty. The Expression of Melancholy in Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”

Książka wyjścia

Opisać wojnę? Doświadczenie traumy w chorwackim dyskursie autobiograficznym i literaturze świadectwa o wojnie w byłej Jugosławii (1991–1995)

Do Androids Have Nightmares About Electric Sheep? Science Fiction Portrayals of Trauma Manifestations in the Posthuman Subject in Frankenstein, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and ‘Nine Lives’