{"title":"„Czym jest dla mnie Afryka?” Renesans harlemowski w poszukiwaniu tożsamości","authors":"Zdzisław Głębocki","doi":"10.15290/bsl.2019.15.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2019.15.13","url":null,"abstract":"The article addresses the question of African inspirations in the works of African-American artists. In the poem Heritage Countee Cullen asks: “What is Africa to me?”. The question was also formulated by African-American intellectuals, social activists, and artists, in particular those associated with the Harlem Renaissance, becoming an important metaphor in formulating racial and artistic identity. The article traces this quest in selected literary works which echo the Dark Continent and supplements the discussion with examples of visual arts from this period inspired by Africa.","PeriodicalId":253723,"journal":{"name":"Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129708477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Przyroda w perspektywie nieantropocentrycznej. O Sadze Puszczy Białowieskiej Simony Kossak","authors":"Katarzyna Trusewicz","doi":"10.15290/bsl.2021.18.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2021.18.12","url":null,"abstract":"The article offers a non-anthropocentric reading of Simona Kossak’s Saga Puszczy Białowieskiej. It also examines the context of scholarly research into the human activity in the Białowieża Primeval Forest (Otton Hademann, Tomasz Samojlik). The author of the article looks at the generic characteristics of this volume and observes that by using her knowledge of nature and history, Kossak gives her saga a character of a palimpsest and deconstructs certain stereotypes and legends concerning the Forest, including both its human and non-human residents. The author also refers to Kossak’s biography and points to the writer’s ethical engagement to prevent the destruction of the natural environment of the Forest.","PeriodicalId":253723,"journal":{"name":"Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128869523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feministyczne topografie miasta – Neapol Eleny Ferrante","authors":"Agnieszka Gawron","doi":"10.15290/bsl.2022.20.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2022.20.05","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the role of Naples in Elena Ferrante’s works. The regional capital of Campania serves here as a topographical frame for the protagonists’ experiences and, at the same time, as a plane onto which Ferrante inscribes fundamental dimensions of her work, related to autobiography, identity, intertextuality and artistic craft. Central to such poetics of space is the inseparable relationship between Naples, women’s experiences and creativity. The essence of this relationship is defined by such notions as labyrinth, porous, ghettoization, and “smarginatura”. Rewriting the city from the perspective of women’s sensitivity and memory subversively deconstructs its androcentric and oppressive qualities, emphasizing women’s agency as dux feminae facti, marking their own spaces in the urban and artistic topography.","PeriodicalId":253723,"journal":{"name":"Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129854304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Portret George Sand w Kochankach z klasztoru Valdemosa Janusza Krasińskiego– w kontrze do Lata w Nohant Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza?","authors":"Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska","doi":"10.15290/bsl.2022.21.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2022.21.11","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the portrayal of George Sand in Janusz Krasiński’s drama Kochankowie z klasztoru Valdemosa [The lovers from Valdemosa convent]. The uniqueness of Sand’s depiction in the contextof Polish culture relies not only on an empathetic reading of Sand’s biography (similarto her representation by Ferdinand Hoesick), but also on treating her asa serious writer. The article also juxtaposes this portrait of Sand with the much better known representation presented in Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Lato w Nohant [Summer in Nohant]. The author of the article shows that the thesis which holds that these dramas could be treated as a theatrical diptych about the beginning and the end of the artists’ relationship is un-founded. In her opinion, the differences in the constructionof Sand’s character cannot be explained here by the different age of the same heroine, as they serve to convey divergent assessments of her character. The article also reflects on the reasons for the popularity of Iwaszkiewicz’s drama and the lack of wider interest in Krasiński’s drama, seeing themelse where than in their artistic quality.","PeriodicalId":253723,"journal":{"name":"Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128780550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rola przestrzeni przedstawionej w powieści nowelowej","authors":"A. Izdebska","doi":"10.15290/bsl.2021.18.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2021.18.08","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on outlining the function of the presented space in the novella novel as an element constituting its coherence. The term “novella novel” (adopted from Krystyna Jakowska and defined by Elke D’hoker) refers to literary works that are generically situated between a coherently composed collection of short stories and a loose novelistic structure. The following works will serve as the material for the analysis: Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk, Hotel World by Ali Smith and Girls and Women by Alice Munro. These pieces are structured and classified differently. The former two are referred to as novels, while the latter one is called by some critics a novel or a hybrid text that can be perceived as a novel. Ultimately, although sometimes used as an element that maintains coherence, the presented space is always meticulously crafted, and it does not appear as quasi-real or geographically located. It is always valorised, metaphorized and ambiguous. Thus, such a common setting is not a “transparent” or “mechanical” element that unifies these stories, but rather one of the many aspects of the process that constitutes coherence of novels constructed in such a way, which remains open to interpretation.","PeriodicalId":253723,"journal":{"name":"Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129984394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ateliery i plenery w prozie Bohumila Hrabala","authors":"W. Soliński","doi":"10.15290/bsl.2019.15.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2019.15.03","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the emotional aspect of autobiographical places in the works of Bohumil Hrabal. Its author observes that both the short and the long prosaic forms by the Czech writer are often set in the space stretching between ateliers of pubs and en plein-airs of Nymburk on the Elbe River (“the town on water”), forests of Kersko, and the degraded smelter plant Krásná Poldi in Kladno. The list of Hrabal’s locations does not end here and also includes the “borderland areas”, such as the control room and platforms of the railway station in Kostomlaty nad Labem; the basement of the wastepaper warehouse in Spalona Street in Prague (and pubs nearby); the author’s flat (which had neither windows nor a toilet) located at 24 Na Hrázi (Věčnosti) Street and many other streets leading directly to the Svět pub Special attention is also given to a place that the author had never visited – Drohobych, but got to know through the prose of Bruno Schulz.","PeriodicalId":253723,"journal":{"name":"Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130279930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Przygotować się do obrony przed bandami Mahometa, czyli Pana Michała algierskie przypadki","authors":"J. Pawlicki","doi":"10.15290/bsl.2019.15.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2019.15.15","url":null,"abstract":"The article interprets the book Muzułmanie, islam i ja [Muslims, Islam and Me] by Michał Christian, which is an account of his stay in Algeria, where he worked as a specialist in the repair of construction machinery in the late eighties. While the main reason for Christian’s trip was the desire to join his wife – Aleksandra Kasznik-Christian, history professor and scholar working in North Africa – the main impulse to write the account came from the September 11 attacks and Oriana Fallaci’s books. The article aims to deconstruct the Orientalist preconceptions underlying Christian’s vision of Islam and relations with Muslims.","PeriodicalId":253723,"journal":{"name":"Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124456833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wokół śmierci Witkacego. Gwiazda Piołun Władysława Lecha Terleckiego z 1968 roku","authors":"Beata Larenta-Boguska","doi":"10.15290/bsl.2019.14.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2019.14.13","url":null,"abstract":"The article interprets the novel Gwiazda Piołun by Władysław Lech Terlecki. Its main character is based on the real life figure of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – author, painter, philosopher. The author of the article indicates the relationships between the accounts of Witkacy’s death and its fictional version. Terlecki’s story of a painter who escapes from war, only to commit suicide eventually, became a pretext for discussing the events from September 1939 and March 1968.","PeriodicalId":253723,"journal":{"name":"Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125879916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ukryci polemiści Janusza Sławińskiego","authors":"Artur Hellich","doi":"10.15290/bsl.2023.22.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2023.22.02","url":null,"abstract":"The author analyzes selected examples of hidden polemics (as understood by M. Bakhtin) in Janusz Sławiński’s essays and notes from the 1970s and 1980s. The aim of the study is to indicate specific theses and people with whom the theoretician had been arguing, as well as to present the theoretic and personal dimension of Sławiński’s polemics. The author emphasizes that the hidden interlocutors of Sławiński are literary critics from the University of Warsaw. This proves that Sławiński reacted intensively in his texts to theses and discourses emerging in the neighboring scientific center. For this reason, the author argues, the description of his attitude and work in the light the cultural history of Polish literary studies should take into account the dialectical interactions between research conducted at the University of Warsaw and at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.","PeriodicalId":253723,"journal":{"name":"Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze","volume":"47 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132062677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ślady ekspedycji Franklina w kulturze – zmienne losy opowieści o eksploracji (arktycznej) przestrzeni","authors":"A. Izdebska","doi":"10.15290/bsl.2022.20.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2022.20.04","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the changing cultural perceptions of one of the most famous and mysterious geographic expeditions of the 19th century, John Franklin’s search for the Northwest Passage. Analyzed herein in closer detail are two novels: The Discovery of Slowliness by Sten Nadolny and Wanting by Richard Flanagan, as well as three texts by Margaret Atwood: the short story The Age of Lead from the collection Wilderness Tips, her Oxford lecture “Concerning Franklin and his Gallant Crew”, published in the volume Strange Things. The Malevolant North in Canadian Literature, and the foreword to the reissue of O. Beatie and J. Geiger’s book Frozen in Time. The Fate of the Franklin Expedition. All of these tales of Franklin’s expedition reflect the vicissitudes of human fantasies about exploring unknown and menacing spaces – not just the mythical frozen North. They are also narratives about our relationship with Nature and all the fears and hopes associated with that relationship.","PeriodicalId":253723,"journal":{"name":"Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115412434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}