This article is concerned with literature created in Spain in the minority anguage of Catalan, examining the question of whether this literature could ever overcome its stereotypical reputation as ...peripheral. The article is also concerned with the reception of this literature, both from synchronic perspective – contemporaneous with Catalan playwright Àngel Guimerà, in Catalonia, Spain and abroad – and the diachronic perspective of the turn of the 20th century. The impetus to address this topic has come from renewed and ultimately unsuccessful attempts by Àngel Guimerà’s compatriots to nominate him for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This article discusses narrative strategies of resistance in postcolonial literature in the context of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s work on minor literature. The predominant question is ...whether there is an affinity between Deleuzian thought and the problems of post-colonial theory. Some answers can be found in the book Deleuze and the Postcolonial, edited by Simone Bignall and Paul Patton. The use of language by minor literature has also been discussed in relation to Jacques Derrida’s reflections on the appropriation of foreign languages and monolingualism. The aim of this article is to ponder first, why post-colonial literature has been regarded as “minor” in the sense proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and second, how it uses the many potentialities offered by language to express subaltern experiences and identities.
In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime
looting of priceless works of art, Bożena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of
ordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, ...clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangible
vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcross
delineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish and
Polish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. These
representational strategies are distilled from the writings of Zuzanna Ginczanka,
WÅadysÅaw Szlengel, Zofia NaÅkowska, CzesÅaw MiÅosz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and
Tadeusz Borowski. Combining close readings of selected texts with critical
interrogations of a wide range of philosophical and theoretical approaches to the
nature of matter, Shallcross's study broadens the current discourse on the Holocaust
by embracing humble and overlooked material objects as they were perceived by
writers of that time.
Celem rozmowy jest przybliżenie czytelnikom postaci Jana Maszczyszyna, pisarza polskiego pochodzenia mieszkającego w Australii, a także prezentacja jego sztandarowego dzieła: Trylogii Solarnej. ...Pierwsza część rozmowy dotyczy doświadczeń czytelniczych i pisarskich autora, a także zawiera krótką charakterystykę steampunku – konwencji, w której Maszczyszyn tworzy. Poruszony tutaj został temat retrofuturystyki, wiążący się z nostalgicznymi i melancholijnymi sposobami rozważań o XIX wieku. Druga część rozmowy została poświęcona Trylogii Solarnej i niektórym jej wątkom. Pisarz opowiada o źródłach, z których czerpał wiedzę niezbędną do kreacji uniwersum, a także samego sposobu jego tworzenia. Autor opowiada również o teoriach naukowych, które stały się inspiracją do stworzenia uniwersum Trylogii…, oraz o powiązanych z tym tematem sposobach naukowej interpretacji świata.
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