Junk Food? The Topic of Waste in Kacper Bartczak’s Pokarm suweren Cover Image

Śmieciowe jedzenie? Problematyka odpadów w Pokarmie suweren Kacpra Bartczaka
Junk Food? The Topic of Waste in Kacper Bartczak’s Pokarm suweren

Author(s): Monika Lubińska
Subject(s): Poetry, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: waste; recycling; poetry;

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates the theme of waste in Kacper Bartczak’s poetry volume Pokarm suweren [The Sovereign Food]. An introduction outlining the cultural contexts prefaces the interpretation proper; those contexts are filled with visions of waste dominant in global imagination. The said interpretation touches upon the issue of subjectivity in the poems, the understanding of which is conditional upon are contexts of moving and transforming characteristic of the lifecycle of waste in various spaces. Other notions interpreted herein are language interceptions frequent in the volume along with Bartczak’s “notional recycling.” Within the mentioned waste contexts, the author of the article also places the problem of political and social resounding of the discussed poems.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 1 (13)
  • Page Range: 261-273
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish