Women S Voices And Feminism In Polish Cultural Memory

Author : Urszula Chowaniec,Ursula Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781443847087

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Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory by Urszula Chowaniec,Ursula Phillips Pdf

Every time a so-called “woman’s voice” appears in the media in connection with any sphere of creative activity, it finds itself confronted by the almost formulaic expression “feminism today,” instantaneously suggesting that feminism is, in fact, a matter of the past, and that if we want to return to this phenomenon, then we need to explain ourselves. Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory seeks to elaborate the problem of generalization, expressed by such formulas as “feminism today,” while analysing how feminist sympathies have shaped Polish literature, film and language. This volume does not want to impose any hegemonic understanding of “feminism,” or imply any a priori ideological assumptions about women’s “nature” or role in society. It seeks to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. It starts by asking such questions as “what is feminism today?” or “what can we learn from the history of Polish women’s writing?” In answering these questions, the women scholars who have contributed to the volume examine Polish cultural history and memory in the context of the transformations, transitions and catastrophes of the last two centuries, whilst firmly rooting Polish experience within the common European heritage.

Author : Urszula Chowaniec
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443884921

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Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women's Writing by Urszula Chowaniec Pdf

Reading contemporary women’s writing as melancholy texts highlights their often under-explored neuralgic nature and emancipatory value. These “strangers in their own lands,” as most recent Polish women writers and their work were described, are the subject of detailed analysis in this book, and are also positioned as the mirrors in which those lands are reflected. From this perspective, the melancholic strands in women’s writing are drawn together to provide a diagnosis of the current situation in Poland, taking into account unwanted discourses, unwelcomed subjects and unresolved problems. Melancholic Migrating Bodies offers the first systematic overview of Poland’s literary and cultural environment after 1989 from the perspective of women’s writing. It critically surveys the various political and social transformations of this period through a close reading of the foremost Polish female novelists. In this original way, the book adopts a fresh perspective on some of the country’s key questions, such as Catholicism, nationalism, the patriotic ethos, history, romantic mythology and the problem of memory.

Author : Yana Hashamova,Beth Holmgren,Mark Lipovetsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317354567

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Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures by Yana Hashamova,Beth Holmgren,Mark Lipovetsky Pdf

Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted "crimes" and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot, the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to Blasphemous examine what constitutes bad social and political behavior for women in Russia, Poland, and the Balkans, and how and to what effect female performers, activists, and fictional characters have indulged in such behavior. The chapters in this edited collection argue against the popular perceptions of Slavic cultures as overwhelmingly patriarchal and Slavic women as complicit in their own repression, contextualizing proto-feminist and feminist transgressive acts in these cultures. Each essay offers a close reading of the transgressive texts that women authored or in which they figured, showing how they navigated, targeted, and, in some cases, co-opted these obstacles in their bid for agency and power. Topics include studies of how female performers in Poland and Russia were licensed to be bad (for effective comedy and popular/box office appeal), analyses of how women in film and fiction dare sacrilegious behavior in their prescribed roles as daughters and mothers, and examples of feminist political subversion through social activism and performance art.

Author : Jo Harper
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789637326554

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Poland's Memory Wars by Jo Harper Pdf

This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both informed and non-specialist readers. The essays consider why and how PiS, Law and Justice, the party of Jarosław Kaczynski, returned to power, and the why and how of its policies while in power. They help to make sense of how “history” plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The descriptions of PiS in Western media tend to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain dormant for some time. The book addresses the underlying question whether PiS was simply successful in understanding its electorate, and just helped Poland to revert to its normal state. This new Normal seems quite similar to the old one: insular, conservative, xenophobic, and statist. The book looks at the current struggle between one ‘Poland’ and another; between a Western-looking Poland and an inward-looking Poland, the former more interested in opening to the world, competing in open markets, and working within the EU, and the latter more concerned with holding onto tradition. The question of illiberalism has gone from an ‘Eastern’ problem (Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) to a global one (Brexit and the U.S. elections). This makes the very specific analysis of Poland’s illiberalism applicable on a broader scale.

Author : Anna Reading
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137352637

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Gender and Memory in the Globital Age by Anna Reading Pdf

This book asks how 21st century technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media are transforming human memory and its relationship to gender. Each epoch brings with it new media technologies that have transformed human memory. Anna Reading examines the ways in which globalised digital cultures are changing the gender of memory and memories of gender through a lively set of original case studies in the ‘globital age’. The study analyses imaginaries of gender, memory and technology in utopian literature; it provides an examination of how foetal scanning alters the gendered memories of the human being. Reading draws on original research on women’s use of mobile phones to capture and share personal and family memories as well as analysing changes to journalism and gendered memories, focusing on the mobile witnessing of terrorism and state terror. The book concludes with a critical reflection on Anna Reading’s work as a playwright mobilising feminist memories as part of a digital theatre project 'Phenomenal Women with Fuel Theatre' which created live and digital memories of inspirational women. The book explains in depth Reading’s original concept of digitised and globalised memory - ‘globital memory’ - and suggests how the scholar may use mobile methodologies to understand how memories travel and change in the globital age.

Author : Anna Reading
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349123391

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Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism by Anna Reading Pdf

Examines Polish women's oppression before, on the cusp and after the collapse of communism. The book analyzes the relationship between Solidarity, state capitalism, nationalism and feminism by drawing on a wide variety of source material.

Author : Ursula Phillips
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643902894

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Polish Literature in Transformation by Ursula Phillips Pdf

This volume emerged from the conference "Polish Literature Since 1989" held at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. It shows how the profound political and economic transformation that has taken place in Poland since the end of communism in 1989 has affected literary culture and literary scholarship, such as: changing conceptions of Polish nationhood and identity * the impact of European integration (since 2004) * the effects of migration * revised conceptions of the foreign or the marginal, and new understandings of what is understood by emigre or emigrant literature * sensitivity to issues of gender and sexual identity, as well as the impact of feminism and queer studies * the huge impact of revived interest in the Jewish heritage, in Holocaust memory, and in Polish-Jewish relations. (Series: Polonistik im Kontext - Vol. 2)

Author : Grażyna Borkowska,Lidia Wiśniewska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Polish fiction
ISBN : 9783643962850

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Another Canon by Grażyna Borkowska,Lidia Wiśniewska Pdf

Author : Karolina Majewska-Güde
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783839455241

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Ewa Partum's Artistic Practice by Karolina Majewska-Güde Pdf

Polish-born artist Ewa Partum is considered a pioneer of Central-Eastern European feminist art produced within the conceptual idiom. Her work can also be divided chronologically into Polish (1965-82), West Berlin (1982-1989) and transnational (from 1989) periods. Karolina Majewska-Güde articulates the historical alterity of Ewa Partum's works in their various locations and the specificity of the positions from which Partum's art was interpreted and disseminated. At the same time, the book engages with the art histories of the Central and Eastern European neo-avant-gardes focusing on the issue of narrative strategies of CEE art history.

Author : Tomasz Bilczewski,Stanley Bill,Magdalena Popiel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000453621

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The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature by Tomasz Bilczewski,Stanley Bill,Magdalena Popiel Pdf

The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through thirty-three case studies, covering works from the Middle Ages up to the present day. Each chapter draws on a text or body of work, examining its historical context, as well as its international reception and position within world literature. The book presents a dual perspective on Polish literature, combining original readings of key texts with discussions of their two-way connections with other literatures across the globe. With a detailed introduction offering a narrative overview, the book is divided into six sections offering a chronological pathway through the material. Contributors from around the world examine the various cultural exchanges at play, with each chapter including: Definitions of key terms and brief overviews of historical and political events, literary eras, trends, movements, groups, and institutions for those new to the area Analysis and notes on translations, including their hidden dimensions and potential Textual focus on poetics, such as strategies of composition, style, and genre A range of historical, sociological, political, and economic contexts From medieval song through to the contemporary novel, this book offers an interpretive history of Polish literature, while also positioning its significance within world literature. The detailed introductions make it accessible to beginners in the area, while the original analysis and focused case studies will also be of interest to researchers.

Author : Helena Goscilo,Beth Holmgren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123267317

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Poles Apart by Helena Goscilo,Beth Holmgren Pdf

Author : Cosmin Budeanca,Dalia Báthory
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643909831

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Histories (Un)Spoken by Cosmin Budeanca,Dalia Báthory Pdf

This book contains analyses and case studies regarding the former political prisoners' and their families' fates impacted by the Communist dictatorships in Central and Eastern Europe (Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Albania). The focus of research is extended from the individuals to the social context in which they functioned, as they were actors in flawed systems which were ready to harshly limit not only their actions but also of those closest to them. The case studies trace disruptions and distortions of broken lives along with strategies to reclaim and restore an apparent 'normalcy'. Cosmin Budeanca, PhD., is expert at The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile. Dalia Bathory, PhD., is expert at The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile.

Author : Urszula Chowaniec
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443825238

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Mapping Experience in Polish and Russian Women’s Writing by Urszula Chowaniec Pdf

The volume encompasses eleven articles which discuss the critical views that Polish and Russian women writers have articulated with regard to the notion of experience and constructions of femininity in the national imagination from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Major themes of the articles include women s experiences as writers in the 19th century; women s embodied experiences of a traumatic past; body and sexuality in the different ages of women; political and aesthetic discourses and femininity. Although the articles are arranged in chronological order, they do not form an absolute chronological or periodic continuum, i.e. from Romanticism to Postmodernism, although references to certain aesthetic periods are made. The authors of the articles reflect in detail on how the women writers and their literary texts represent different understandings and experiences in relation to dominant perceptions, for example, of the memory of war, of motherhood, of art and aesthetics, and so on. Readers are encouraged to seek parallels and continuities between the different historical times and spaces; between women s writing in Russia and Poland; between different scholarly approaches and aims. The articles of this volume bring together important critical standpoints in women s writing in Poland and Russia, in which parallels, continuities, and resemblances can be traced, but in which discontinuities, breaks and differences also make themselves visible. Apart from the conspicuous resemblances between individual Russian and Polish women writers works, or even between groups of women writers, the articles document the diversity within Russian and Polish women s writing, respectively, and even within individual writers.

Author : Arlene Stein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199381920

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Reluctant Witnesses by Arlene Stein Pdf

Americans now learn about the Holocaust in high school, watch films about it on television, and visit museums dedicated to preserving its memory. But for the first two decades following the end of World War II, discussion of the destruction of European Jewry was largely absent from American culture and the tragedy of the Holocaust was generally seen as irrelevant to non-Jewish Americans. Today, the Holocaust is widely recognized as a universal moral touchstone. In Reluctant Witnesses, sociologist Arlene Stein--herself the daughter of a Holocaust survivor--mixes memoir, history, and sociological analysis to tell the story of the rise of Holocaust consciousness in the United States from the perspective of survivors and their descendants. If survivors tended to see Holocaust storytelling as mainly a private affair, their children--who reached adulthood during the heyday of identity politics--reclaimed their hidden family histories and transformed them into public stories. Reluctant Witnesses documents how a group of people who had previously been unrecognized and misunderstood managed to find its voice. It tells this story in relation to the changing status of trauma and victimhood in American culture. At a time when a sense of Holocaust fatigue seems to be setting in and when the remaining survivors are at the end of their lives, it affirms that confronting traumatic memories and catastrophic histories can help us make our world mean something beyond ourselves.

Author : Sarah Silberstein Swartz,Margie Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X006029403

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From Memory to Transformation by Sarah Silberstein Swartz,Margie Wolfe Pdf

Not satisfied by the established roles assigned to them, Jewish women have begun to uncover their history, religion and culture using tradition and memory to inspire and transform their lives. In From Memory to Transformation, women activists, rabbis, scholars, writers and artists explore the themes of Jewish women's history; feminism, activism and social change; religion, ritual and spirituality; personal identity; and Jewish women's creativity. By editors of the prizewinning Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers, this compelling collection aims to define the ties that bind our past, present and future.