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There are no/mad women in the attic. O książce Moniki Świerkosz „W przestrzeniach tradycji. Proza Izabeli Filipiak i Olgi Tokarczuk w sporach o literaturę, kanon i feminizm”.
There are no/mad women in this attic

Author(s): Arleta Galant
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: feminist literary criticism; literary history; tradition; Polish fiction; nomadic subjects

Summary/Abstract: Polish fiction, nomadicsubjectsThe basis of the contemplations contained in the article is a book by Monica Świerkosztitled In the space of tradition. Prose of Izabela Filipiak and Olga Tokarczuk in disputesabout literature, canon and feminism. The author of the sketch outlines thethreads on the feminist discourse about the past, which remain the key to the book’sanalyses and reconstructs the importance of nomadic methodological project, whichby criticising the concept of feminine continuum enables the expansion of languagesto interpret “text genealogy” of contemporary Polish female writers.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 99-106
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish