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Strategie subwersywne w literaturze polskiej po 1989 roku
Subversive strategies in Polish literature after 1989

Author(s): Piotr Marecki
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Jarosław Lipszyc; Sławomir Shuty; Piotr Siwecki; Polish contemporary writers; book market; subversion

Summary/Abstract: The author surveys subversive strategies on the field of contemporary Polish literature, understood here as authors’ attitudes and the creative techniques. He discusses subversive strategies of Piotr Siwecki, Jarosław Lipszyc and Sławomir Shuty as the most characteristic. However the tools used in these analysis can be applied to a bigger scope of contemporary authors. Besides, he points to some innovative forms of production and playing with the market (purposely low circulation, leaving behind traditional book formats, open license), genres (hyperfiction, story art, mnemotechniques) and creative techniques (deejaying, remix, plagiarism). Subversive strategies are inscribed into a wider logic of change in the field of cultural production and a battle between the spheres of consecration and the avant-garde (from Pierre Bourdieu’s vocabulary of the sociology of art).

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 313-324
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish