Być obcym u siebie? Marcin Świetlicki i Barbara Gruszka-Zych wobec znaków przynależności
Native strangers? Marcin Świetlicki and Barbara Gruszka-Zych facing signs of belonging

Summary/Abstract: The article is a reflection on the symbols through which the modern experience of culturalbelonging is expressed and on the motivations behind their contestation. Examples ofselected themes that Marcin Świetlicki and Barbara Gruszka-Zych explore in theirwriting are used to examine the poetic quest to overcome feelings of alienation in one’sown cultural milieu. In spite of the differences between the two poets, both address theproblems facing the contemporary consciousness of Western man, split between the desireto complete the process of deconstructing his own universal “identifying signs” and theneed to creatively explore the process of symbolization itself.The issue of “internal acculturation,” as a particular case within the topic ofacculturation as a whole, is also correlated to examples drawn from Francophone poetry.

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