A Poetics of Borderlands : A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by Contemporary US Latina / Chicana and Polish Women Writers. Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture, Vol. 40.

Holubowicz, Aleksandra:

ISBN 10: 3631892322 / ISBN 13: 9783631892329

Published by Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang, 2023

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212 pp. A perfect copy. - Summary: The book explores the notion of borderlands and the concept of nomadic subjectivity as manifested in selected novels by Chicana/Latina and contemporary Polish women authors. It seeks to propose a poetics of borderlands that emerges from the condition of nepantla (being torn, not belonging anywhere). Language, collective identities and motherhood are the main issues under scrutiny. Application of feminist literary criticism, postcolonial criticism and comparative literature studies in examination of literary works reveals interesting parallels between works of authors that have little in common at first glance. One of the book objectives is to draw attention to contemporary Polish writers, whose oeuvre is not widely researched in the mainstream literary studies. - Contents: Introduction. The Concept of Borderlands -- Borderlands as a concept -- Methodology -- Postcolonial Studies -- Feminist criticism -- Chapter 1. Language of the Borderlands -- Latino/Chicano English/Spanish -- Mother tongue and English as a second language - linguistic colonialism -- The Polish language -- (Polish) women and linguistic colonization -- Language and gender -- Silencing and regaining voice -- Silencing -- Silenced by trauma -- Silenced through suppression of the mother tongue -- "What does it matter who's speaking?": first-person narration -- The Chicana "i" -- "Speak-out" narration: Justyna Bargielska -- Speculative fiction: magical realism -- Magical feminism -- Magical feminism in Graciela Limón's Erased Faces -- Magical realism and transrealism in Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters -- Magical Realism vs. the Gothic in Cristina García's The Agüero Sisters -- Joanna Bator's tabloid Gothic: Ciemno, prawie noc -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. National Identity, Race, and Class -- National Identity -- Border amnesia and flight from memory -- Race issues in Poland -- Research on race -- Post-colonial studies in Poland -- The peasant "race" -- National identity in Latina/Chicana texts -- Homogeneous or multiethnic Polish society? -- Jews -- Germans -- Ruscy - Russkies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Borderland Motherhoods -- Mother -- The Mother Mystique: Matka Polka -- The Latina Mother -- Can a feminist be a mother? -- Feminist mothers: borderland motherhoods -- (Pre-)Conception motherhoods/childless mothers -- The abortionist mother -- Social mothers: Regina and Alicja Tabor -- The scandalizing mother/the deadbeat mother -- The escape -- The depressive-suicidal mother -- Dresiara: The Polish gopnik mother -- Conclusion: From woman as mother to maternalization of politics -- Chapter 4. Nomadic Subjectivity in Borderland Poetics -- Olga Tokarczuk's "tender narrator" -- Anger -- Nomadism -- Economic nomadism -- Nomadism in fiction -- Conclusion: Aren't We All from Borderlands? ISBN 9783631892329 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 346.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Poetics of Borderlands : A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by Contemporary US Latina / Chicana and Polish Women Writers. Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture, Vol. 40.
• Publisher: Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631892322
• ISBN 13: 9783631892329
• Binding: Hardcover, 22 cm.
• Condition: Wie neu
• Weight: 346 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The book explores the notion of borderlands and the concept of nomadic subjectivity as manifested in selected novels by Chicana/Latina and contemporary Polish women authors. It seeks to propose a poetics of borderlands that emerges from the condition of nepantla (being torn, not belonging anywhere). Language, collective identities and motherhood are the main issues under scrutiny. Application of feminist literary criticism, postcolonial criticism and comparative literature studies in examination of literary works reveals interesting parallels between works of authors that have little in common at first glance. One of the book objectives is to draw attention to contemporary Polish writers, whose oeuvre is not widely researched in the mainstream literary studies.

About the Author

Aleksandra Hołubowicz does research in the field of literary studies, specializing in contemporary American literature and border studies. She earned her PhD at Gdan´sk University and is currently employed at Charles University in the Czech Republic.