Hater Polish Studies. On the Book “Granice Nałkowskiej” (“Nałkowska’s Borders”) Cover Image

Polonistyka hejterska. Uwagi do książki „Granice Nałkowskiej”
Hater Polish Studies. On the Book “Granice Nałkowskiej” (“Nałkowska’s Borders”)

Author(s): Hanna Kirchner
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: “Granice Nałkowskiej” (“Nałkowska’s Borders”); Nałkowska

Summary/Abstract: The article is a polemics by an outstanding expert in Nałkowska’s work and editor of her “Dzienniki (Diaries)” with a collective volume devoted to the writer which aspires to feminist criticism. Majority of the volume’s contributors trace the ideological “limitations” of the great writer, an icon of Polish feminism, unfortunately reaching for disgraced rules of socialist realism and pop-cultural patterns, especially the Internet hate speech, thus resorting to manipulation and libel at variance with Nałkowska’s work. Extreme examples of it are two sketches falsely imputing Nałkowska’s anti-Semitism. The volume, devoid of editorial proofreading, contains numerous mistakes and errors, including content matter ones.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 125-169
  • Page Count: 45
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