Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Recent submissions
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Translational Dynamics in Urban Space: Exploring Battala’s Multilingual Cultural Encounter
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)“Battala” is a Bengali metonym for commercial print culture which gained popularity during the Bengal Renaissance. This print culture became a translational palimpsest, disseminating literary genres and leading to the ... -
Urban Un/Belonging: Translating Pre-Partition Spaces in Old Rawalpindi, Pakistan
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)In this article, I propose a transgressive re/inscription of the city spaces of Old Rawalpindi through the lens of Sherry Simon’s integrated translational city theory. In the wake of the 1947 partition of the Indian ... -
Community Centres as Sites of Translation: Placemaking in Edinburgh
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)This article presents a research project comprising a series of community initiatives in Edinburgh, a city which displays a disproportionately English-heavy linguistic profile, despite the cosmopolitan influences of both ... -
Majorca as a Translational Space: Creating and Questioning Identity through Translation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-24)Majorca offers a rare combination of opportunities to develop a study of translation and space. Not only is it a site of rich historical cultural contact, but it is also a present location of contact and tension: between ... -
Exploring Yaoundé as a Linguistically Divided Capital City of an English and French Bilingual African Nation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)This article examines the place of translation in the public space in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, an African nation with a threefold (German, English, and French) colonial heritage. The collected quantitative ... -
Always in Motion: Cities, Languages, Histories
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International Language Poetry: Radical Poetics in Charles Bernstein and Andrzej Sosnowski
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The article discusses two linguistic poetry projects—that of the American poet Charles Bernstein and that of the Polish poet Andrzej Sosnowski. The main focus is on those poems by both poets which draw inspiration from the ... -
The Disnarrated and Denarrated in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Drawing on the notions of “disnarration” (telling what did/does not occur) and “denarration” (cancelling or negating what has occurred) as theorized by, respectively, Gerald Prince and Brian Richardson, this paper examines ... -
Unearthly Nature: The Strangeness of Arbospaces in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Commonly acknowledged as one of Thomas Hardy’s most environmentally-conscious literary accomplishments, The Woodlanders (1887) provides fertile ground for a stimulating and topical ecocritical debate. The intricate correlation ... -
A Study of Transgressed Boundaries in The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This paper endeavours to delineate the gender dynamics and ethical quandaries arising from the repercussions of war and the decisions undertaken to preserve societal norms, as depicted in the 1988 science-fiction novel ... -
Voices of the Dead: Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse and the Horror Genre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This article examines the 2019 film The Lighthouse, directed by Robert Eggers, which follows the descent into madness of two 19th-century lighthouse keepers as they become stranded on a desolate New England island and ... -
From Kitsch and Carnivalesque to Cultural Appropriations: Liminal Representations of Post-Apartheid White Identity in Die Antwoord’s Music Videos
Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)
Through their multi-dimensional artistic performances—manifesting in music, lyrics and videos—the South African rap-rave hip-hop duo Die Antwoord expresses the ethos of “Zef,” a white working-class Afrikaner post-apartheid ... -
“I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window”: The Hermeneutical Aesthetics of (Be)longing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The article addresses the nuanced but also profoundly enticing and challenging reality of belonging evoked in painting. I examine three artworks by artists of different times and styles—John Everett Millais, Johannes ... -
“If I Could but See a Day of it”: On the Aesthetic Potential for Belonging and Action
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This essay argues that the potential freedom revealed within aesthetic experiences of beauty can encourage a utopian form of belonging that could help materially realize this potential. Drawing upon Immanuel Kant and ... -
Silent Voices: Dwelling with our Specters through Palimpsesto (2017), by Doris Salcedo
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)A palimpsest is a writing erased and replaced by another. Sometimes, perhaps all too often, our lives become incarnated palimpsests thanks to the prevailing biopolitics, which refers not only to the government of the living, ... -
The Meaning of Animals in the First Farm Revolts: From Kostomarov’s Ukraine to Reymont’s Poland at the Turn of the 20th Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In 1945, George Orwell published Animal Farm, a critique of Cold War totalitarianism wherein animals acquire human speech, walk on two legs, and ultimately oppress themselves once gaining power. Its concern for the lived ... -
The Regional Impersonal as a Mode of Dwelling: Structures of Embodiment in David Jones’s The Anathémata and Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The discussion of dwelling in this article focuses on T. S. Eliot’s controversial axiom of poetic impersonality as articulated in The Sacred Wood (1920) and practiced in The Waste Land (1922), and on how this axiom is ... -
Imagination and Dwelling in The House that Jack Built
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This article employs a phenomenological and hermeneutic lens to examine the themes of dwelling, creative imagination, and the interplay between ethics and aesthetics within Lars von Trier’s film, The House that Jack Built. ... -
Longing to Belong in One’s Own Homeland: Tracing the Topophilic Cartography in Anita Sethi’s I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In this article I will read I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain (2021) by Anita Sethi, the Manchester-born woman of colour, to explore how journeying through natural landscapes can be perceived as an ... -
Nine Billion Branches: A Digital Poem by Jason Nelson—the Home of Objects
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In his digital poem Nine Billion Branches, Jason Nelson explores various modes of belonging, which could be realized multifacetedly on corporeal, social, political, aesthetic and ecological levels. These locations range ...