Topografie i kartografie (kobiecego) dwudziestolecia
Topographies and cartographies of the (women’s) interwar period

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of three book published in 2014 devoted to the literature of the interwar period: Joanna Krajewska’s "Dispute about women’s literature in the interwar period", Margaret Büthner-Zawadzka’s "Warsaw through the eyes of women writers. The image and experience of the the city in Polish women’s prose, 1864–1939" and Urszula Glensk’s "History of the weak. Reportage and life in the interwar period (1918–1939)". In all of these publications, the authors refer to Foucault’s categories of “mapping” and “topography” to discuss important cultural, sociological and political contexts that shaped the literature of the period. The key question addressed in the article is how adopting a cultural perspective (one sensitive to issues of gender, class and ethnicity) changes our previous knowledge about the history and literature of the interwar period.

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