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Ekonomia ciała. Powieści Marty Syrwid
The Economics of Body. On Marta Syrwid’s Novels

Author(s): Michał Sowiński
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language and Literature Studies, Economy, Gender Studies, Literary Texts, Psychology, Fiction, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: feminism; Polish fiction; trauma; economy

Summary/Abstract: The paper “The Economics of Body: On Marta Syrwid’s Novels” aims, on the one hand, to sketch a portrait of the writer and place her within the space of the Polish literary field; on the other hand, it makes an attempt to interpret her first novel Zaplecze. The author of the text seek to break off with the dominant feminist existential perspective, in which Syrwid has been often inscribed by the critics. Instead, he proposes to view her writing as a continuation of the modern thinking (references are made to e.g. Kafka) about the subject in economic categories, that is as an impossible project of the complete breaking from and becoming independent of the outside reality.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1+2 (8)
  • Page Range: 221-232
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish