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The title refers to Mark Beylin’s assessment of the position Niki Saint Phalle took in Paris sixties feminist practices the “art of anger”. The author discusses the biographical book Żony w cieniu mistrzów literatury rosyjskiej by Alexandra Popoff, Ferwor. Życie Aliny Szapocznikow by Marek Beylin and Kobro. Skok w przestrzeń by Margaret Czyński.
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The so called emigrantion literature is a topic, which has commanded growing interest within literary studies during the last years. In German-Polish research, we see terms shifting from “migrant literature”, towards more open formulations such as “Polish literature on the move” (Ottmar Ettes, 2001). The article focuses on this very mobility of identities. The article examines autobiographically inspired novels by Krzysztof Niewrzęda, Leszek Oświęcimski and Dariusz Muszer. They immigrated to Germany during the 1980s, which means they have been part of the last migration wave before the 1989 transitions. The article examines, with recourse to intercultural German studies and psychoanalytic insights, archetypical masculinity models in the literature by the above mentioned authors (the victim, the bad boy, the fool, the monk and the saviour).
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The article entitled “Świetlicki speaking” referes to the time when the well-recognized poet, Marcin Świetlicki, repeatedly breaks his declared unwillingness to use the social media. At the turn of 2014 and 2015 he begins to publish “appeals” to his fans. Initially, these texts concern the refusal of nomination to the literary reward Nike, but gradually the scope of the topics expands. Świetlicki, for years considered a politically disengaged poet, begins to speak often and clearly on current issues – not only in his books, but also on Facebook.
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The article discusses the afterword to the Polish edition of “Lucrezia Floriani” (2009) – George Sand’s 1846 novel, based on autobiographical motifs (the author’s relationship with Frederic Chopin), which was usually seen in a very unfavorable way by Chopin’s successive biographers, up to considering the novel an example of caricature and libel. The article shows that Mieczysław Tomaszewski, author of the afterword, joins this misogynous tradition of the novel’s reception as well, through denial of the writer’s right to her own view and suggestions that apart from its biographical meaning, the novel is devoid of any literary value. The article compares Tomaszewski’s afterword to the newest interpretations which emphasise the uncommonness of the novel’s in feminist criticism emancipated protagonist when juxtaposed with 19th-century models of femininity.
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Nowadays, in humanities there is a strong tendency to create specific biographies. Mentioned opuses are not focused on well-known people but on famous cities, which are considered as still developing and changing places. Cities consist of different elements and phenomena like architecture, culture, economy and literature. This new way of creating biographies was shown by a German author Peter Oliver Loew. In his book, Loew presented Gdańsk as a strong and free city, which did not lose its identity and functioned like a Hanseatic polis.
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The article is on overview of the newest monograph by Roma Sendyka. In her book Od kultury “ja” do kultury “siebie”. O zwrotnych formach w projektach tożsamościowych the scholar discusses the concept of subjectivity, which happens to be lost in translation, but also significantly distinguishes concepts of I and self. The author of the monograph references research in many fields of humanities and the neurosciences, brings different meanings to evoked terminology, discusses translation proposals and confronts them with literary examples.
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In her case study of two frontier towns – Krzyż (Kreuz) and Żółkiew (Żowkwa, Nesterow) – Anna Wylegała presents a story of resettlement and Polish-Ukrainian or Polisch-German relations in perspective of several generations of respondents. Based on collected narrative interviews, the authoress constructs the models of collective memory, characteristic for selected places. As Wylegała shows, based on the analysis of the research material, memory and non-memory depend on many factors such as politics of memory, economy, pre-war ethnic composition and circumstances of resettlement and journey to “regained territories”. Anna Wylegała, basing on methodology of many humanities subdisciplines and social sciences, analyzes the differences in the adaptation process, constructing narratives of identity, suppression of trauma and closing the experience of resettlement. In the monography Przesiedlenia a pamięć, theories of memory are competently connected with empiricism of biographical method.
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The author introduces a new book by Andrzej Mencwel published in parts in fourth issue of “Autobiography”. The book by Mencwel is shown both in the context of the research interests of this eminent cultural anthropologist, as well as in relation to the Polish ethnographic works and in relation to academic prose.
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The article raises the problem of the genre, narration and subject construction in The Pilgrim’s Story. The author of the article argues that despite the mediational/transitional (from oral to written) character of Loyola’s narrative, the text is spoken autobiography in the third person. In this context, she introduces the concept of “a pre-autobiographical pact” between the author-narratorhero and the recorder. This pact has determined the boundaries of the “confession secrecy”, the scope of the narrative and its constructive mode. Moreover, the article proves that Loyola’s text is the proper autobiography in the modern sense. Essentially the main argument is, firstly, the literary model of the subject’s self-creation and, secondly, the model of the metafictional “game”: the subject recounts his story through the prism of recognition of the Other in himself, reveals the essence of the process of self-identity formation, articulates the emotional dynamics of human existence, finally, through artistic gesture encourages one to take up the existential challenge.
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The author comes up with a theoretical proposal to extract autoanalysis from autobiography. At the crossroads of psychoanalysis, poststructualism and the affect theory concepts, autoanalysis shall be based on deepened relation with oneself, in opposition to the classical autobiography, which stays only on the surface level of cognition. Intimate theory of literature by Roland Barthes opens up to this type of area of distinction. The author focuses on the affect of love, which helps her present unexpected stimulus of getting to know one self and simultaneously define the auto-analytic perspective of literature research.
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The author comes up with a theoretical proposal to extract autoanalysis from autobiography. At the crossroads of psychoanalysis, poststructualism and the affect theory concepts, autoanalysis shall be based on deepened relation with oneself, in opposition to the classical autobiography, which stays only on the surface level of cognition. Intimate theory of literature by Roland Barthes opens up to this type of area of distinction. The author focuses on the affect of love, which helps her present unexpected stimulus of getting to know one self and simultaneously define the auto-analytic perspective of literature research.
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The article is an attempt of description of fatherhood in the newest polish literature. It claims that after the period of “anti-father” literature (a term coined by Przemysław Czapliński to describe novels by Izabela Filipiak, Wojciech Kuczok, Jacek Dehnel, Edward Pasewicz), the wave of “fathers who speak” has arrived. Existential experience of fatherhood in texts by Tomasz Jastrun and Jacek Podsiadło becomes the subject of description in lyrical and quasi-literary texts. The author tries to present specifity of both poets as well as their common experience of fatherhood as located out of patriarchal schemes. This common experience is constituted by: father’s experience of pregnancy, close bodily relationship with a child, sacralization of this relation outside the traditional religious points of reference, particularly strong anxiety of confrontation with outer world.
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Georges Perec’s works represent a various forms of autobiographical writings. I remember is acollection of 480 records, whole book proves a discontinuity of memory and autobiography. In one of his latest works Philippe Lejeune writes he just don’t believe in single autobiography, but in autobiographical texts.
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Film cameras made it possible for individuals to present themselves to others, to assume and feel agency, also to change it, to utilize agency to claim participation in diverse collectivities. Most recently, digital cameras have presented their users with astonishing ways to encourage but also to disseminate diverse acts of agency. In this paper the author proposes to bring to the fore the selfie (an emerging sub-genre of portraiture) as a new cultural product responsible for mediation, production, and transmission of subjectivities in the global mediascapes. Framing the subject in ways which defy ennobled aesthetic principles of photography,its cultivated artistry, selfies reconfigure and adapt ways the subject represent and understand themselves. This paper argues that selfies create visual spaces of novel modesof selfhood, of its certification and assertion.
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The author analyses one of the intimate diaries from concentration camps written by AbrahamKajzer, who was a prisoner of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau and AL Riese (which was a part of KL Gross-Rosen on Lower Silesia). In article is uses Paweł Rodak’s theory of broad understanding of diary’s materiality as a writing practice, which was very complicated and difficult during the World WarII, especially at concentrations camps (finding material and tool to write, organizing space andwork out a ritual of writing; also place where notes were hiding and their fates in the post-war years). Diary it’s not only on textual level but it’s closely related to regular life. But in the campwriting daries was extremely dangerous practice (author could pay with his own life for it). Abraham Kajzer was an writing in Yiddish on empty cement bags with indelible pencil in camplatrine, where he was also hiding notes. After war he passed on his material to Adam Ostoja, who translated them and edited to publication.Kajzer described his reality in concentration camps and many traumatic experiences, which are one of many evidences of the Nazi genocide.
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The author of the paper explains that the omission of the notion of corporeality inscribed in the text constitutes the impoverishment of philological analyses and interpretations. The omission causes the loss of what motivates the whole textuality – the experience which is possible through the body and its various senses. The interpretation requires the inclusion of metensomatosis – the transmutation of one body into another. Poetry enables the “communication” of what is nota word but what constitutes its source(s). In other words, beyond the visibility of the written form,poetry also reveals the most biological/bodily aspects – preceding the symbolic order (of culture, institution). The experience of the body and the bodily experience must be subject to “verbalization” (its particular aspects which are: the “melody of words”, the rhythm in speech/writing, the harmony, echolalia, the meter). The rhythm is the most important sign of corporeality in the text and it becomes the “signature of the speaking subject, proving the uniqueness of every text”, its“ somatic style” and the basis of Adam Dziadek’s somatic critique project.
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The paper discusses the latest publication by Mariusz Kraska entitled Prosta sztuka zabijania. Figury czytania kryminału [Simple Art of Killing. Figures in Reading Crime Fiction] in which he presents different models of impact that crime literature has on a reader, with special reference to so-called reading for pleasure. Since the reading process is considered a sort of strategic game between the reader and the author or his/her text, Kraska analyses potential scenarios of crime novels and presents them with the use of the following figures: pleasure of becoming addicted, pleasure of being seduced, pleasure of following the plot and pleasure of interpreting. The researcher from Gdańsk attempts to provide comprehensive analysis of game category in the context of crime fiction, in other words takes a novel look at this literary genre.
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