Poetyki protestu. Tom I
The Poetics of Protest. Volume I
Contributor(s): Monika Kopcik (Editor), Karolina Kulpa (Editor), Anna Piniewska (Editor), Piotr Sidorowicz (Editor), Danuta Ulicka (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: protest; opposition; revolt; literary theory
Summary/Abstract: "The Poetics of Protest" is the result of the discussion held during the conference organized by the Scientific Circle of Theory of Literature and the Department of Poetics, Literary Theory and Methodology of Literary Research. The session was conducted online at the Faculty of Polish Studies of Warsaw University between 6th and 14th March 2021. The texts presented in the book are concerned with the issue of protest, revolt and opposition, which is analysed using modern humanistic concepts, drawn from disability studies, sociology of literature or dance studies.
Series: Parabaza
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-5256-7
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-5248-2
- Page Count: 498
- Publication Year: 2021
- Language: Polish
Jestem wtedy, kiedy krzyczę
Jestem wtedy, kiedy krzyczę
(I Am When I Shout)
- Author(s):Sylwia Chutnik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:27-42
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:feminist movement; radical protests; herstory; culture studies; minority groups
- Summary/Abstract:The concept of radical walking is the beginning of a description of various types of resistance, which is a form of pressure from minority groups such as women, mothers, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ and others. On the examples of activities in public space, the author examines which myths and tabs have been crossed and in what form. Radical Walking is therefore an attempt to politicize this seemingly transparent form of everyday practice.
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Protest i skandal, czyli o tym, co „niedopuszczalne”
Protest i skandal, czyli o tym, co „niedopuszczalne”
(A Protest and a Scandal)
- Author(s):Przemysław Pietrzak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:43-65
- No. of Pages:23
- Keywords:scandal; prohibition; convention; avant-garde; dadaism; futurism; repression
- Summary/Abstract:The author is concerned with a scandal deliberately created in the work of art (especially in literature). He distinguishes it from a scandal understood as an appraisal of someone’s act or behaviour. He considers intentional scandal in its function of protest, uniting a triple kind of provocation: social, artistic and political. Founding examples for such a kind of activity can be noticed among various groups of European avant-garde in the first decades of the 20th century. Analysing separately each of the three elements, the author states that the driving force of a deliberate scandal is a revelation of something that should have stayed concealed. He emphasizes that the norms and prohibitions broken by a scandal are always of common and historical nature.
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Taniec jako strategia, protest jako choreografia – analiza gruzińskiej „rejwolucji” w perspektywie studiów nad tańcem
Taniec jako strategia, protest jako choreografia – analiza gruzińskiej „rejwolucji” w perspektywie studiów nad tańcem
(Dance as a Strategy, Protest as Choreography)
- Author(s):Gabriela Kozakiewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:67-88
- No. of Pages:22
- Keywords:dance; political protest; social choreography; rave; Georgia
- Summary/Abstract:The growing popularity of protests that make strategic use of dance suggests the necessity for the sociological analysis to develop tools that could capture the specificity of this form of contestation. With this aim in mind, it is worth turning to the field of dance studies, somehow neglected in the Polish academic sphere, since it provides interesting perspectives for the scientific exploration of protest events. The following article offers an overview of the key proposals of dance theorists that can be applied to the analysis of contestation episodes. These theoretical considerations are complemented by a case study of rave protests in Georgia (2018), which implements selected research perspectives proposed by dance scholars. Thus, this paper displays the usefulness of the choreographic analysis of contestation practices for the sociology of social movements. Moreover, it highlights the potential of dance as a valuable form of communicating political resistance.
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Strach przed pominięciem
Strach przed pominięciem
(The Fear of Omission)
- Author(s):Dagmara Świerkowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:89-110
- No. of Pages:22
- Keywords:poetry slam; language of rebellion; spoken word; social art
- Summary/Abstract:Poetry slams are events bordering on poetry, theatre and performance. Organized around the world for over 40 years, they have become a method for the presentation of independent oral creativity. Their important feature is to trigger active involvement of recipients who become judges of slam poetry. Oral poetry created by slammers is usually colloquial. As a result, it is sometimes omitted in academic discussion and treated as devoid of aesthetic or, more broadly, literary values. The grassroots, and due to its oral character, ephemeral work of slammers often has a one-off dimension, so unarchived texts, testimonies of rebellion, disappear forever. The aim of the article is to present slammer statements as a new genre and to discuss the most important features indicating the issues of opposition contained in them, which constitute their thematic core.
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Dokąd prowadzą „ścieżki cyganerii”?
Dokąd prowadzą „ścieżki cyganerii”?
(Where Do „Bohemian Paths” Lead?)
- Author(s):Patrycja Wojda
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:111-125
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:Warsaw bohéme; Parisian bohéme; Murger; Baudelaire; Norwid
- Summary/Abstract:In the interpretations of the biographies of bohemian writers as well as bohemian literary characters the act of rebellion is treated as the main trait of the artistic bohemianism. This rebellion seems to be a harmless joke, whereas the bohemian is presented as a jester, overcoming adversities. However, in the studies on bohemianism little attention is paid to the fact that protest of Parisian bohemians, outwardly aimed at bourgeoisie, is marked by a longing for a bourgeois and stable life. The leading French bohemians from the 1840s would most likely abandon that life, which was proved by the biographies of Baudelaire and Murger, the author of the "Scenes of Bohemian Life", as well as peripeteia of the novel’s characters. Likewise, biographies and works of Polish bohemian writers from the turn of 1830s and 1840s are devoid of rebellion. Their attitude is rather pessimistic. They are resigned and aware of their own failure.
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Między szopką a cyrkiem
Między szopką a cyrkiem
(Between a Puppetry and a Circus)
- Author(s):Magda Nabiałek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:127-146
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:drama; circus; avant-garde; Wandurski; Szelburg; Polewka
- Summary/Abstract:The article discusses the relationship between theatre and circus, cabaret, and puppetry. The author does not intend to merely reconstruct the associations but to show how the writers of interwar period used these spectacles in defiance of particular behaviours or social injustice. On the example of works by Witold Wandurski, Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, and Adam Polewka, the author demonstrates that contemporary writers spoke about reality through such forms as circus, puppet theatre, and similar. They also used them to offer resistance and create a true bond with the audience.
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Protest w sejmie a protest w teatrze
Protest w sejmie a protest w teatrze
(The Protest in the Parliament and in the Theatre)
- Author(s):Anna Piniewska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:147-166
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:Theatre 21; disability; protest; stereotype; activism, social model of disability
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of this article is to analyze Theatre 21’s "Revolution That Never Was" directed by Justyna Sobczyk. The author demonstrates how – in a non-obvious way – the performance raises the subject of the protest of people with disabilities and their caretakers, which took place in 2018 and lasted for forty days. She also explains how the actors and actresses challenge the social stereotypes of disabled people. The key contexts for this article are disability rights activism discussed by Tom Shakespeare and the problem of regaining presence in the public sphere (both political and artistic). The latter is related to the title of the essential publication concerning disability in theatre and performance, edited by Ewelina Godlewska-Byliniak and Justyna Lipko-Konieczna.
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„Piss On Pity!”
„Piss On Pity!”
(„Piss On Pity!”)
- Author(s):Monika Dubiel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:167-186
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:language of protest; vulgarism; disability studies; Disability Rights Movement; Alan Holdsworth
- Summary/Abstract:The language of social protests often evokes ambivalent feelings. On the one hand, it carries emancipatory power, on the other, it outrages because of breaking conventions. In this chapter I focus on one of linguistic tools used in such protests, namely vulgarisms. I try to investigate their subversive potential and reveal why they might be an attractive means of expression. The aim of this chapter is to reflect on the role that vulgarisms play in constructing the language of protest used by the Disability Rights Movement in the UK, on the example of activity and poems by Alan Holdsworth. I argue that vulgarisms are an excellent tool to overturn the norm. I distinguish three ways of using them: shock, provocation and subversion. My research material consists mainly of poems and lyrics by the mentioned author. Additionally, slogans on the placards on the demonstrations organized by him and press articles reporting those events are also taken into consideration. The history of the development of the Disability Rights Movement is the context of my investigation. Considerations are situated in the paradigm of disability studies.
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Poetyki (Czarnego) protestu
Poetyki (Czarnego) protestu
(The Poetics of the Black Protest)
- Author(s):Agnieszka Waligóra
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:187-203
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Black Protest; Barbara Klicka; Dominika Dymińska; poetics; Polish latest poetry
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents two literary representations of the Black Protest seen as a broader political and cultural emancipation movement. Barbara Klicka’s work "Sztandar, sztandar" problematizes the issue of a protest from the perspective of language – the subject of the poem, who, in the face of political events, decides to temporarily change her style. On the other hand, "Aborcja z miłości" by Dominika Dymińska focuses rather on the issue of affects as well as reproductive and emotional work, which is oppressively imposed on women in a patriarchal society. The nature of the Black Protest leads to the conclusion that all perspectives, if they are only based on the same axiological foundations, are equally valid and important, but each of them emphasizes a different aspect of emancipation.
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Wyobraźniowe przewroty we współczesnej poezji polskiej
Wyobraźniowe przewroty we współczesnej poezji polskiej
(Imagination Revolutions in Contemporary Polish Poetry)
- Author(s):Przemysław Koniuszy
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:205-231
- No. of Pages:27
- Keywords:poetics of protest; contemporary Polish poetry; contestation in poetry; lyrical subject; philosophy and poetry; lyrical experience
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents, through the analysis of two volumes of poetry ("Apocalypse of the Dog" by Adam Leszkiewicz and Songs by Damian Kowal), the specificity of the protest, which, in the author’s opinion, is an obligatory modality of the lyrical persona in contemporary Polish poetry. In the first case, the rebellious fierceness of the subject is expressed when it realizes that it is influenced by dehumanizing ideology and unspecified power as a force that deprives it of the right to live in a community of equal beings. The persona constructed by Leszkiewicz is sensitive to practices that authoritatively suspend the freedom to construct a private image of the world and, in line with her predisposition, seeks ways to emancipate consciousness. "Apocalypse of the Dog" turns out to be an account of the subject taking his private convictions in brackets and becoming a sovereign protester in a world previously turned to rubble. In Kowal’s "Songs", however, the actions of lyrical personas are inspired by the specificity of ambient music. Their statements are penetrated by the background of everyday life, which influences their emotions and completely absorbs thoughts, acting oppressively on them. In "Songs", the subject, in order to maintain his presence, must make offensive protest gestures, therefore his existence always betrays the contesting position, regardless of whether it is intentional (declaratively confirmed) or unconscious. Here, the poetic contestation is the result of the self-knowledge of a man realizing the scale of pressure exerted on him.
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Waszym poetom zebrało się śliny
Waszym poetom zebrało się śliny
(Your Poets Are Fed Up)
- Author(s):Marta Bukowiecka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:233-273
- No. of Pages:41
- Keywords:engaged poetry; bruLion; “young” poetry; poetics of protest; forms of engagement
- Summary/Abstract:The article compares two generations of committed Polish poets, namely the “bruLion” group and the current generation of young poets (represented by the volume "Zebrało się śliny" [Fed Up]). Despite these two formations’ different images, their poems have a lot in common, which is due to their common literary tradition. Similarities can be seen at the level of the poetics of protest, i.e. the critical, artistic transformation of public language.
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Nazizm – atrofia pamięci, mowa pamięci (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Tadeusz Różewicz)
Nazizm – atrofia pamięci, mowa pamięci (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Tadeusz Różewicz)
(Nazizm – the Atrophy of Memory, the Speech of Memory (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Tadeusz Różewicz))
- Author(s):Tomasz Wójcik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:275-284
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz; Czesław Miłosz; Tadeusz Różewicz; Nazism; memory; atrophy; speech
- Summary/Abstract:Selected poems by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Czesław Miłosz and Tadeusz Różewicz are the subject of this reflection. They are read as testimony of dissent and resistance to the atrophy of the memory of Nazism. The particular condition of this memory, which speaks out from between the noise (of civilisation) and the silence (of culture), is recognised.
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Opowiadanie protestu, protestowanie
Opowiadanie protestu, protestowanie
(Narrating Protest, Protesting)
- Author(s):Mirosława Buchholtz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:285-299
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:Flannery O’Connor; racial segregation; protest; civil rights; American South
- Summary/Abstract:The short story "Everything that Rises Must Converge" (1965) has often been read in the context of Flannery O’Connor’s Catholicism. However, the conflicts reflected in the short story are far more varied than that. What is more, in portraying generational, class, and racial conflicts, O’Connor does not give either side an edge on the opponent. The protests of a young college graduate and of random people, both Afro-American and white (including „white trash”), unfold in the microcosm of a city bus and on the street. The unnamed historical context of racial segregation is only implied in such telling phrases as „integrated [buses]” or „bottom rail up”. The idea of civil disobedience propagated by Henry David Thoreau and taken over by the leader of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King resounds in the background. The claim of the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin quoted in the story’s title and confronted with the material reality of the street emerges as an ambiguous message of malediction and consolation. The essay focuses on the ways of representing protest and argues that O’Connor’s story not only narrates, but also enacts a protest.
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Opór, jaki jest, każdy widzi (albo nie)
Opór, jaki jest, każdy widzi (albo nie)
(Resistance as You Can See (or Not))
- Author(s):Hanna Gosk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:301-314
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:resistance; lack of resistance; masters; peasants; identity; freedom; cultural patterns; Baśń o wężowym sercu…; Radek Rak
- Summary/Abstract:The article focuses on rarely noticed aspects of the phenomenon of resistance against circumstances perceived as oppressive or, for various reasons, difficult to be accepted. First, it will be the lack of resistance; second, resistance against a creative cognition of the New/Other, against opening oneself to them as something enriching. Radek Rak’s Baśń o wężowym sercu… will serve as an equivocal literary example.
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„Śmiałość wyobraźni nieodzowna socjalistycznemu pisarzowi”
„Śmiałość wyobraźni nieodzowna socjalistycznemu pisarzowi”
(“Daring Imagination Indispensable to A Socialist Writer”)
- Author(s):Karolina Kulpa
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:315-342
- No. of Pages:28
- Keywords:contestation; utopia; avant-garde; Bruno Jasieński; I Burn Paris; imagination
- Summary/Abstract:This article attempts to capture the contestative dimension of Bruno Jasieński’s prose works. More precisely, the author is interested in the role of political imagination, which is revealed not only in the space of the presented world, but also results directly from the writer’s own creative attitude. The novel „I Burn Paris” is read as one of the versions of avant-garde prose and as a text that in a non-obvious way draws attention to the limited possibilities of the language of literature and the ways of influencing, by unmaskingly creating alternative, utopian visions of reality.
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Georges Perec – strategia cichego oporu
Georges Perec – strategia cichego oporu
(The Strategy of Silent Resistance)
- Author(s):Małgorzata Fabrycy
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:343-360
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:Georges Perec; Oulipo; Człowiek, który śpi; Rzeczy; infra-ordinaire
- Summary/Abstract:Georges Perec admitted in an interview that his work may be summarized with this moral: “there is a conflict between people and institutions and the role of the latter is always harmful”. The aim of the article is to analyze, using the examples of Rzeczy ["Things: A Story of the Sixties"] and "Człowiek, który śpi" ["A Man Asleep"], how through in-depth observation and a detailed description of everyday life, Perec resisted the domination of the ubiquitous media discourse and bureaucracy. In conclusion, we will briefly mention the book "Pamiętam, że" ["I Remember"], Perec’s gesture towards his generation, aiming at creating the common space of understanding.
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Formy protestu „aparatczyka” – przypadek Stefana Żółkiewskiego
Formy protestu „aparatczyka” – przypadek Stefana Żółkiewskiego
(The Protest of an Apparatchik – Stefan Żółkiewski’s Case)
- Author(s):Piotr Sidorowicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:361-384
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:Stefan Żółkiewski; Marxism; theoretical literary studies; protest; conspiracy
- Summary/Abstract:The text is a polemic with the stereotypical image of Stefan Żółkiewski as an apparatchik. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the structure of the academic field, the author analyzes Żółkiewski’s theoretical attitude, according to texts and extra-texts from the 1930s and 1940s. The materials from the period of the Nazi occupation in Poland are pivotal, but the remaining sources are used contextually.
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Jak robić rzeczy bez słów?
Jak robić rzeczy bez słów?
(How to Make Things Without Words?)
- Author(s):Danuta Ulicka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:385-403
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:silence; performative; ethics and pragmatics of silence; quiet; understatement underspecification
- Summary/Abstract:The paper tackles a problem somehow omitted in linguistics and philosophy of language: silence as a performative speech act. It is the agency that differs silence from other linguistic and non-linguistic behaviour, like quiet, understatement, underspecification, presupposition or implicature. The discursive character of silence is due to the authorial intention, the address, the felicity conditions and the assumed answer. Among the issues discussed are the dialectic bond between silence and speech and the negatively connoted linguistic representations of silence, enrooted in the Polish language and Polish political culture. The main protagonist of the study will be Tadeusz Kotarbiński, the side characters - other philosophers and poets who believed silence was action.
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Dlaczego ludzie nauki zaprzestali masowych protestów?
Dlaczego ludzie nauki zaprzestali masowych protestów?
(Why Have Scholars Stopped Protesting?)
- Author(s):Marek Jedliński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:405-423
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:idea of university; culture; protest; consumption; scientist
- Summary/Abstract:The author explores the issue of protest as an element of the traditionally understood path of intellectual development. The opposition against pragmatism and critical thinking should be – as famous researchers of the idea of a university believe (Jaspers, Newman) – the primary responsibility of the scientist. The author of the article claims that under the influence of contemporary process of consumption of science, we should be asking ourselves: „Why are we not protesting?”.
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Poetyki niezgody w tekście i pozatekście – panel dyskusyjny
Poetyki niezgody w tekście i pozatekście – panel dyskusyjny
(The poetics of discord in the text and beyond the text - discussion panel)
- Author(s):Inga Iwasiów, Anna Kałuża, Tomasz Majewski, Łukasz Wróbel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:425-482
- No. of Pages:58
- Keywords:protest; opposition; revolt; literary theory
- Summary/Abstract:"The Poetics of Protest" is the result of the discussion held during the conference organized by the Scientific Circle of Theory of Literature and the Department of Poetics, Literary Theory and Methodology of Literary Research. The session was conducted online at the Faculty of Polish Studies of Warsaw University between 6th and 14th March 2021. The texts presented in the book are concerned with the issue of protest, revolt and opposition, which is analysed using modern humanistic concepts, drawn from disability studies, sociology of literature or dance studies.
- Price: 4.50 €