Ecohauntology as a Reading Strategy. Case Study of „The Bones You Carry in Your Pocket” by Łukasz Barys Cover Image

Ekowidmontologia jako strategia lektury. Studium przypadku „Kości, które nosisz w kieszeni” Łukasza Barysa
Ecohauntology as a Reading Strategy. Case Study of „The Bones You Carry in Your Pocket” by Łukasz Barys

Author(s): Mateusz Adam Michalski
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Keywords: ecohauntology; hyperobjects; ecology; trauma; climate catastrophe

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to reflect on the relationship between the subject and the environment in a state of crisis on example of the novel by Łukasz Barys entitled The Bones You Carry in Your Pocket. The author proposes a psychoanalytic reading strategy, the main theme of which are ‘spectres’ (Derrida) associated with the traumogenic relationship between the ‘I’ and nature. Be text analyses climate catastrophe in the context of hyperobject theory (Morton) and their entanglement in local structure.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 51-63
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish