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Prowincjonalizowanie feminizmu w polskich badaniach literackich
Provincializing Feminism in Polish Literary Studies

Author(s): Arleta Galant
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: category of province; Polish feminism; nationalism; new regionalism; literature; postcolonial thought; glocality

Summary/Abstract: The author of the text analyzes the strategies of provincializing the Polish feminism and genderstudies. Starting points for interpretations in the article are Dipesh Chakrabarty’s book –Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference and feminist publicationsabout modernity, nationalism, capitalism in Poland. In the article the category of a province isconsidered as an emblem existing in a new regionalism’s discourse. The author claims that thehistory of the category of a province is entangled in the ambiguities which are related to the glocalunderstanding of a region; she also reflects on the relations between feminism, regionalism andlocal experiences of a global reality.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 189-200
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish