“Here nothing is mine / and all is mine”:  
Invisible Inhabitants of the City in Ilona Witkowska’s Poems Cover Image

„Tu nic nie jest moje / i wszystko jest moje” –niewidzialni mieszkańcy miasta w poezji Ilony Witkowskiej
“Here nothing is mine / and all is mine”: Invisible Inhabitants of the City in Ilona Witkowska’s Poems

Author(s): Sonia Nowacka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Poetry
Published by: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk we Wrocławiu
Keywords: Human-Animal Studies; poetry after 2010; engaged poetry; political aspect of poetry; animal turn

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the human and non-human relations of the city’s inhabitants in the poetry of Ilona Witkowska. The author, using the perspective of interdisciplinary HAS (Human-Animal Studies) research, analyses individual works included in the collections of poems Splendida realta (2012) and Lucifer wins (2017), showing the links between Witkowska’s politically engaged poetry and selected threads of contemporary biopolitical thought. The author tries to show places in Witkowska’s reflection on the relationship of people and animals in urban space which can be connected with the animal turn in the humanities and political philosophy.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 143-151
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish