Beyond Agon: The Decolonization of the Feminist Tradition in Arleta Galant’s and Agnieszka Gajewska’s Literary Criticism Projects
Beyond Agon: The Decolonization of the Feminist Tradition in Arleta Galant’s and Agnieszka Gajewska’s Literary Criticism Projects
Author(s): Monika ŚwierkoszContributor(s): Małgorzata Olsza (Translator)
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: feminist literary criticism; tradition; agon; Arleta Galant; Agnieszka Gajewska;
Summary/Abstract: The article examines changes in the way feminist literary criticism has been practiced in Poland since 2005 in the context of identity politics, location politics, the female tradition, and the female reading community. The author emphasizes the significance of (not only gender-related) “difference,” defined in a non-essentialist, nomadic, and non-antagonistic way, in two feminist literary criticism projects by Arleta Galant and Agnieszka Gajewska respectively. Both critics revise second-wave feminist critical tools and yet remain within the feminist reading community, seeking new non-antagonistic ways of reading the same and the different.
Journal: Forum Poetyki
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 37
- Page Range: 6-19
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
