The strategies of seeing differently in Kathleen Jamie’s travel writing: Findings and Sightlines

• Authors: Dziok-Łazarecka Anna

Title variants

PL

Inne sposoby patrzenia: Narracje z podróży w Findings i Sightlines Kathleen Jamie

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article looks at the narrative techniques employed in two collections of creative non-fiction essays by the Scottish writer and poet, Kathleen Jamie. In Findings (2005) and Sightlines (2012) the narrator uses the theme of travel as a platform for expressing the liminality of natural and cultural zones. At the same time, the concept of motion and the boundless travel experience are often turned into their diminutive forms. In order to transgress the dual notions of outside/inside, human/nonhuman and the visible/unseen, Jamie employs a number of visual strategies. She introduces experimental methods of observation to free perception from the constraints of the dogmatic predictions which emerge from the automatization of sight. Jamie exposes our own illusions of what “natural” is or where exactly “nature” resides, prompting us to rethink our own position in the system. In this she often demonstrates the ethical environmental agenda of contemporary Scottish writers and exposes the intrusion of globalism into parochial zones.

PL

W artykule podjęto kwestię realizacji technik narracyjnych w dwóch zbiorach eseistyki podróżniczej szkockiej poetki i pisarki, Kathleen Jamie. W cyklach reportaży podróżniczych Findings (2005) i Sightlines (2012) autorka używa tematyki podróży dla przedstawienia takich wątków jak liminalność i integralność sfer natury i kultury, przy czym nierzadko redukuje ona sam ideał podróżniczy do jego własnej miniatury. W przekraczaniu dogmatycznie pojmowanych binarnych koncepcji, Jamie często odwołuje się do sposobów widzenia i eksperymentuje z różnorodnymi technikami wizualnej reprezentacji przyrody. Sama “natura” wreszcie staje się spoiwem łączącym cykle podróżnicze, które wpisują się w etycznie zaangażowany nurt szkockiego przyrodopisarstwa.

Keywords

EN

Jamie Kathleen; travel book; Scottish nature writing; ways of looking; defamiliarization; ecocriticism

PL

Jamie Kathleen; reportaż podróżniczy; szkockie przyrodopisarstwo; sposoby widzenia; defamiliaryzacja; ekokrytyka

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 15/4
• Pages: 7-25

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Dziok-Łazarecka Anna

• Uniwersytet w Białymstoku

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