Historia jednego drzewka. O Mirabelce Cezarego Harasimowicza z perspektywy zwrotu ku rzeczom
The Story of a Single Tree: Cezary Harasimowicz’s Mirabelka [Mirabelle] and the Turn Towards Things

Summary/Abstract: Cyzman examines the network of relations created by the mirabelle as a thing (a tree inMuranów) and the mirabelle as a literary construct in Cezary Harasimowicz’s children’s book Mirabelle. Both are approached from the perspective of the turn towards things and, drawing on Bruno Latour, as non-human actors in the network of reality. By acting with human actors, the thing plays an active role in the historical persistence, social identity and integration of interpretive communities. Cyzman discusses the possibility,key to posthumanist anthropology, of an extra-discursive grasp of things in opposition to poststructuralist approaches that have textualised things, projecting their receptionin a symbolic mode mediated by a human actor. She also indicates the possibility of a relational approach to literary objects, the meaning of which emerges within the perpetually mobile network of reality, within various dimensions relating to society, the media, culture and text.

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