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Mapping Experience in Polish and Russian Women’s Writing
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...
Rewriting the Jew
In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians furiously debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature. This book examines stories about Jewish assimilation by four authors: Grigory Bogrov, a Russian Jew; Eliza Orzeszkowa, a Polish Catholic; and Nikolai Leskov and Anton Chekhov, both Eastern Orthodox Russians. Safran introduces the English-language reader to works that were much discussed in their own time, and she situates Jewish and non-Jewish writers together in the context they shared. For nineteenth-century writers and readers, successful fictional...
Riding History to Death
This powerful memoir traces the life of Karol Modzelewski, one of the preeminent Polish dissidents of the twentieth century. With humor and perception, Modzelewski describes his formative years. Born in 1937 to a Polish-born mother and Russian-Jewish father in Moscow, he spent his early schooling and underwent deep indoctrination in the Soviet Union. In 1945 he moved with his mother and stepfather, a prominent communist, to Poland when his stepfather was appointed as foreign minister in Warsaw. In the relatively “liberal” Polish atmosphere, Modzelewski gradually awoke to the realities of the party system during his university years. Modzelewski discusses the experiences and realizations ...
Nowe drogi
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Kampf ums Da(bei)sein
Charles Darwin spaltet bis heute die Geister – vielleicht gerade deshalb, weil er den Geist als nachrangigen Faktor auch menschlicher Lebensverläufe begriff. Seine Theorie hat die Wissenschaften vom Geiste erschüttert. Als erste Monographie beleuchtet nun Daniel Schümanns Studie die Rolle der Literatur für die geistigen Prozesse, welche die Darwin-Diskurse nach Polen brachten. Das geteilte Polen war ein heterogenerer Kulturraum als das heutige Polen, was sich auch am Umgang mit Darwins Ideen zeigte: Zwischen 1860 und 1900 wurden dort diverse Konzepte von Polonität im Spannungsfeld zwischen Dämonisierung und unkritischer Idealisierung der Evolutionstheorie verhandelt. Die Frage, ob eher der ‚Kampf ums Dasein‘ – die Konkurrenz zu anderen Kulturen – oder der ‚Kampf ums Dabeisein‘ – die Orientierung an ihnen – die polnische Identität bestimmen soll, scheint auch im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert noch offen.
The Conradian
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