Matrifocal signatures in contemporary Polish women’s poetry: Justyna Bargielska and Beata Patrycja Klary Cover Image

Sygnatury matrifokalne w najnowszej polskiej poezji kobiet. Justyna Bargielska i Beata Patrycja Klary
Matrifocal signatures in contemporary Polish women’s poetry: Justyna Bargielska and Beata Patrycja Klary

Author(s): Beata Morzynska-Wrzosek
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Polish Literature, Family and social welfare, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: contemporary Polish women’s poetry; matrifocal signature; experience of motherhood; melancholy; affirmation; epicrisis; prosthesis;

Summary/Abstract: Based on the poetry of Justyna Bargielska and Beata Patrycja Klary, the article aims to present the experience of maternity which escapes generalisations, demanding an interpretation that is involved, affective, sensitive to mixing conventions, searching for internal relations, open to the creation of unobvious meanings, provocations and contrariness. Bargielska’s matrifocal signature is marked by melancholy and affirmation, while Klary introduces fragments of medical epicrisis and a prosthesis in the form of a reborn doll. Both poets use various registers and extreme means of expression; they condense images, giving voice to different semantic undertones in order to describe/introduce to literature an experience which, as it turns out, resists universal qualifications.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 165-186
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish