Beyond Agon: The Decolonization of the Feminist Tradition in Arleta Galant’s and Agnieszka Gajewska’s Literary Criticism Projects Cover Image

Poza agon. Dekolonizacje tradycji feministycznej w projektach lekturowych Arlety Galant i Agnieszki Gajewskiej
Beyond Agon: The Decolonization of the Feminist Tradition in Arleta Galant’s and Agnieszka Gajewska’s Literary Criticism Projects

Author(s): Monika Świerkosz
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.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 6-21
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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