PorownaniaPub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.14746/por.2021.3.12
Marta Frątczak-Dąbrowska, Joanna Jarząb-Napierała
{"title":"The Crisis of Brexit and Other Socio-Cultural Aspects of Silencing the Past through the Example of Anna Burns’ Milkman","authors":"Marta Frątczak-Dąbrowska, Joanna Jarząb-Napierała","doi":"10.14746/por.2021.3.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.3.12","url":null,"abstract":"The present article scrutinizes the phenomenon of a systemic silencing of the past visible in recent socio-political challenges caused by Brexit, especially in the case of the Irish border. Due to the comparative character of the paper, the attention is targeted at a symptomatic amnesia manifested on the British and Northern Irish sides. Postcolonial melancholia, to use Paul Gilroy’s term, facilitated by a systemic whitewashing of British imperial past, is contrasted here with Northern Irish postcolonial amnesia understood as a personal and institutionalised suppression of the difficult memory of colonisation and violence. In what follows, the paper aims to show how these two phenomena meet in the conflict of Brexit and how literature comments on the current political, social and cultural issues such as Brexit based on the example of Anna Burns’ novel Milkman (2018). The article discusses the silence which has surrounded the issue of the Irish Border in Brexit debates, as well as looks at the Northern Irish reluctance to talk about their past as an unsuccessful attempt to escape the demons of the past.","PeriodicalId":37922,"journal":{"name":"Porownania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45457535","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}
PorownaniaPub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.14746/por.2021.3.9
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz
{"title":"Are We In This Together?: The Polarisation of the British Society and the Marginalisation of Otherness in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet","authors":"Tomasz Dobrogoszcz","doi":"10.14746/por.2021.3.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.3.9","url":null,"abstract":"Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet—Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer—was written and published at lightning speed, between the 2016 Brexit referendum and Britain’s effective departure from the EU in 2020. The article examines how the novels engage with the issue of Brexit, as they become the chronicle of a grinding cultural process and critically confront the transformation of the British nation. I survey various psychological factors related to the polarisation of the British nation and investigate Smith’s presentation of the way in which the populist propaganda of menace produced by the right-wing media leads to marginalising Otherness. Employing the nomadic theory of the subject developed by Rosi Braidotti, I analyse Smith’s literary strategies used to represent not only post-truth manipulation and institutionalised British xenophobia, but also the actions of people who resist them.","PeriodicalId":37922,"journal":{"name":"Porownania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48486091","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}
PorownaniaPub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.14746/por.2021.3.19
K. Karp
{"title":"Brexit we włoskiej literaturze współczesnej: Città irreale (Nierealne miasto) Cristiny Marconi, Brexit Blues (Brexitowy blues) Marca Varvella i La mia Brexit (Mój brexit) Francesca De Carla","authors":"K. Karp","doi":"10.14746/por.2021.3.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.3.19","url":null,"abstract":"Przedmiotem artykułu jest fenomen brexitu we włoskiej literaturze współczesnej, rozpatrywany na podstawie opublikowanych dotychczas tekstów, w których odgrywa on istotną rolę. Analizie zostają poddane trzy powieści: Città irreale (Nierealne miasto) Cristiny Marconi, Brexit Blues (Brexitowy blues) Marca Varvella oraz La mia Brexit (Mój brexit) Francesca De Carla, z których wyłania się jego negatywny obraz, osadzony w kontekście problematyki imigracji, stanowiącej szczególny obszar zainteresowania wymienionych autorów.","PeriodicalId":37922,"journal":{"name":"Porownania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44590005","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}
PorownaniaPub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.14746/por.2021.3.22
M. Filipowicz
{"title":"Piekło wiralu. Środkowoeuropejskie dystopiczne wizje mediów społecznościowych","authors":"M. Filipowicz","doi":"10.14746/por.2021.3.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.3.22","url":null,"abstract":"Wiele demokratycznych krajów w trakcie ostatniej dekady zostało zaskoczonych własnym nieprzygotowaniem na zagrożenia płynące z upowszechnienia się mediów społecznościowych. Inwigilacja, dezinformacja i propaganda czy też mowa nienawiści, to wszystko stało się realnym zagrożeniem, wywołanym przez największe platformy społecznościowe. Literatura również zareagowała na to zjawisko, przede wszystkim dostarczając dystopicznych wizji dalszego niekontrolowanego oddziaływania mediów społecznościowych. Artykuł skupia się na analizie i interpretacji dwóch wydanych w ostatnim czasie na gruncie czeskiej i słowackiej literatury powieści – czeskiego pisarza Davida Zábranskiego Logoz aneb Robert Holm markéter dánský (Logoz czyli Robert Holm duński marketingowiec, 2019) i słowackiego pisarza Michala Hvoreckiego, Troll (Troll, 2017). Istotą interpretacji jest szukanie odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy literatura ogranicza się w tej kwestii wyłącznie do snucia apokaliptycznych wizji, czy też może pokazuje ewentualne plany naprawcze.","PeriodicalId":37922,"journal":{"name":"Porownania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44933120","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}
PorownaniaPub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.14746/por.2021.3.10
Wojciech Klepuszewski
{"title":"\"Some Corner of a Foreign Field That Is [Not] For Ever England”: Brexit and Poetry","authors":"Wojciech Klepuszewski","doi":"10.14746/por.2021.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"Although it would be absurd to compare the 2016 Brexit referendum and whatever happened in its aftermath to the tragedy of the Great War, surprising as it may seem, the two have something in common. This is so because the 1914–1918 period triggered a flood of poetry, written not only by established literary figures, but also by thousands of civilians who found it a means of expressing their emotions. By the same token, the post-referendum years produced a poetic response on the part of ordinary citizens. This article tries to take a closer look at how once again British citizens turn to poetry to voice their fears and frustration.","PeriodicalId":37922,"journal":{"name":"Porownania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48175320","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}
PorownaniaPub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.14746/por.2021.3.8
Michał Lachman
{"title":"Travelling Europe, Travelling through Crisis: Disintegrated Journeys in Dorota Masłowska’s A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians and Zinnie Harris’s How To Hold Your Breath","authors":"Michał Lachman","doi":"10.14746/por.2021.3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.3.8","url":null,"abstract":"The article reflects on the issues of European social, political and ethical disintegration by looking at two plays which represent both geographic and mental migration of European citizens. Zinnie Harris’s play dramatizes a journey by an energetic businesswoman from the state of seeming success to the condition of collapse of the entire continent. Masłowska’s drama tells the story of a couple who have lost their geographic but also existential bearings after a prolonged bout of drug abuse and partying. The article aims at presenting the European continent as a space of alienated social and personal experience, as a community of people in permanent exile from both the private space and the public ideologies. The two plays offer a reflection on the condition of pre-Brexit Europe with the power of capturing representative lives of those individuals who have lost the sense of the common cause.","PeriodicalId":37922,"journal":{"name":"Porownania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49495376","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}
PorownaniaPub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.14746/por.2021.3.21
Sylwia Nowak-Bajcar
{"title":"Języki kryzysu. Patografie w najnowszej literaturze serbskiej","authors":"Sylwia Nowak-Bajcar","doi":"10.14746/por.2021.3.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.3.21","url":null,"abstract":"W artykule przedstawiono powstałe w ostatnim trzydziestoleciu wybrane utwory serbskich twórców (David Albahari, Svetislav Basara, Ɖorđe Pisarev, Igor Marojević, Vladimir Arsenijević), podejmujących problem relacji Serbii z Europą, w tym kwestię wstąpienia tego kraju do Unii Europejskiej. Kluczem interpretacyjnym do analizy tego problemu stała się kategoria choroby będąca metaforą kryzysu dotykającego nie tylko Serbię, ale – w opinii autorów należących do różnych generacji – cały świat. Sceptycyzm uwidaczniający się w dziełach prezentowanych pisarzy nie jest wyrazem osobistego stosunku tych autorów do kwestii integracji Serbii z Unią Europejską, lecz raczej smutną refleksją nad niegotowością ich kraju do tego procesu, będącą wynikiem złożonej sytuacji społeczno-politycznej oraz trudnych doświadczeń historycznych, które do niej doprowadziły.","PeriodicalId":37922,"journal":{"name":"Porownania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44262126","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}
PorownaniaPub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.14746/por.2021.3.5
Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
{"title":"Brexit on Stage: Two Verbatim Projects in Progress","authors":"Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak","doi":"10.14746/por.2021.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with two post-Referendum projects launched by British national organizations, the National Theatre and the Guardian with Headlong, whose task was to reflect more accurately on a broader range of current British experience. The projects were written in response to questions on whether national artistic institutions, the subsidized “complex culture,” have not been out of touch with the rest of the country, notably the post-Referendum crisis. Both projects set out to research the crisis with documentary and quasi-documentary methods, to involve in an exercise in “listening” and to focus on polarisation, voter fatigue and lack of trust. The article concentrates on the two projects as variants of political theatre and on the ways they use the verbatim method in their attempts to diagnose and understand the crisis arguing, further on, that the effects differ, leading either to populism or to empathetic understanding and reconciliation.","PeriodicalId":37922,"journal":{"name":"Porownania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46883249","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}
PorownaniaPub Date : 2021-07-12DOI: 10.14746/por.2021.2.4
Oliwia Gromadzka
{"title":"Krajobraz japoński w polskich narracjach podróżniczych przełomu lat 80. i 90. XIX wieku","authors":"Oliwia Gromadzka","doi":"10.14746/por.2021.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Celem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza portretu krajobrazu japońskiego, jaki wyłania się z polskich tekstów podróżniczych końcówki XIX wieku. Przeanalizowane zostały trzy (a zarazem wszystkie, które są znane) teksty polskich podróżników: Karola Lanckorońskiego, Pawła Sapiehy oraz Hugona Zapałowicza. Pod koniec lat osiemdziesiątych XIX wieku niezależnie od siebie odbyli oni podróż do Japonii. Przedmiotem refleksji są tu poszczególne cechy narracji, takie jak porównania, reprezentacje krajobrazowe, relacje międzykulturowe czy stereotypy dotyczące społeczeństw nieeuropejskich, które złożyły się na charakterystyczny, nacechowany kolonialnym spojrzeniem, opis tego kraju.","PeriodicalId":37922,"journal":{"name":"Porownania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48714099","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}
PorownaniaPub Date : 2021-07-02DOI: 10.14746/por.2021.1.24
Tatiana Czerska
{"title":"Post-koiné, czyli Anity Jarzyny projekt krytyki nieantropocentrycznej","authors":"Tatiana Czerska","doi":"10.14746/por.2021.1.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.1.24","url":null,"abstract":"Artykuł stanowi przegląd i omówienie monografii Anity Jarzyny Post-koiné. Studia o nieantropocentrycznych językach (poetyckich), która jest jedną z kluczowych rozpraw badających związki ludzko-zwierzęce na materiale poezji polskiej XX i XXI wieku. Książka Jarzyny jest nie tylko przykładem zręcznego aplikowania metodologii z pogranicza posthumanizmu i animal studies. Stanowi oryginalną i nowatorską propozycję nieantropocentrycznego czytania literatury, jest także ważnym głosem w debacie o budowaniu ładu ekologicznego i miejscu oraz roli zwierząt w życiu człowieka.","PeriodicalId":37922,"journal":{"name":"Porownania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45125286","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}