Przeglądaj Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 14/2024 według tytułu
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Back in the Old Country: Homecoming and Belonging in Leonard Kniffel’s A Polish Son in the Motherland: An American’s Journey Home and Kapka Kassabova’s To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Homecoming travel narratives are typically written by first-wave immigrants, their children, or grandchildren. Usually, homecoming books are accounts of emotionally charged travels that oscillate between nostalgia and ... -
Belonging and Longing: The Question of the Subject in Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The philosophy of Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion departs from the transcendental role of the subject. No longer is the subject regarded as its own foundation, nor does it own or constitute its objects. Instead, it ... -
Breaking the Promise of Perfection: Imperfect Utopias in Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In an era still plagued by popularized skepticism toward utopian thought, Marge Piercy’s 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time remains a compelling exploration of potential futures. This essay juxtaposes anti-utopian critiques ... -
Building Liveable Futures: Dwelling as Collaborative Survival After Climate Change
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Taking a cue from Tim Ingold’s post-humanist reflection on building and dwelling as more-than-human practices, the article aims to revisit dwelling as a strategy of “collaborative survival” (Tsing) in the context of the ... -
Cathartic Paths of the Gothic in Ciemno, prawie noc by Joanna Bator
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The aim of this paper is to investigate how the Gothic is employed in Joanna Bator’s novel Ciemno, prawie noc [Dark, Almost Night]. I frame my analysis on the author’s assertion that “Poland is a horror,” exploring firstly ... -
The Challenge and Gift of Being-in-the-World: The Hermeneutics of Dwelling and (Be)longing
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Cities and Their People: Dwelling in the Anthropic Time of N. K. Jemisin’s New York
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The article starts with Martin Heidegger’s 1951 essay “Bauen Wohnen Denken,” recently rethought by Jeff Malpas in his book Rethinking Dwelling from today’s perspective of urban and metropolitan dwelling. However, while ... -
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 ... -
Dwelling and Departure: Beginning Disputes between Arendt and Heidegger
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In “Letter on Humanism,” Martin Heidegger juxtaposes the notion of homelessness (Heimlosigkeit) with home-coming (Heimholung), i.e. the reawakening to our original relationship to Being. This focus on dwelling in Being ... -
Dwelling in the Urban Liminal: A Phenomenological Consideration of Saul Leiter’s Street Photography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In this essay, I present a phenomenological exploration of the “urban liminal” in the context of Saul Leiter’s street photography. In gauging the possibilities of dwelling in the urban liminal, this essay brings into ... -
Filling the Gaps in Broken Memory while Renewing the Cityscape: Navigating Belonging in Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The Red-Haired Woman, one of Orhan Pamuk’s post-Nobel novels, is a concise, fable-like narrative that delves into the complexities of father-son conflicts. The novel parallels the journey of the protagonist, Cem, with the ... -
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 ... -
How to Dwell in Garbage Patches? Waste Communities in the Aftermath of Ancestral Catastrophe in Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide (2013) and Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes (2011)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The article approaches the problem of dwelling in areas affected by environmental crises through the lens of two speculative fabulations. Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide (2013) and Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes ... -
“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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...