The Local, the Uncanny, the Queer. Neighbourhood in Recent Polish Women’sLiterature

Abstract

The article presents a diverse spectrum of neighbour relations as depicted in recent Polishwomen’s literature. Representations of neighbourhood in family sagas, herstorical and autoethnographicnarratives, neo-post-settlement novels and pathographies are discussed (novels by JoannaBator, Dominika Buczak, Agnieszka Kuchmister, Dorota Kotas, Aleksandra Zielińska). The articlealso address the problem of neighbourhood in a post-anthropocentric perspective, transcendinginterpersonal relations.