Literatura spoza centrum
Literature Outside the Centre

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with Arleta Galant’s book "The Provinces of Literature. Polish Women’s Prose after 1956", which is the culmination of a research project focused on both the previously insufficiently analyzed creative output of Polish women writers between 1956 and 1989 and the category of space, to which the concept of the province belongs. This concept is used as a methodological frame for interpreting selected works, and provides a multilayered conceptual category for describing literary and historical processes in various contexts. The author situates literature from the PRL period by Zyta Oryszyn, Britta Wuttke, Ewa Maria Slaska, Krystyna Kofta, Renata Zwoźniakowa, Małgorzata Szejnert, and Krystyna Sakowicz within literary theory, reflecting on the concepts of the provinces, narrative, gender, and the history of literature, and proposing a formula for understanding women’s writing over a span of four decades.

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