In-Between-Space. Anthropologies of Everyday Life, of the City and of Literature in Miron Białoszewski’s Chamowo
In-Between-Space. Anthropologies of Everyday Life, of the City and of Literature in Miron Białoszewski’s Chamowo

Summary/Abstract: This article builds on and supports Roch Sulima’s claim that Miron Białoszewski’s works, saturated with anthropology, can serve as an inspiration to anthropologists of everyday urban life. Focusing on the poetics of space in Chamowo, Karpowicz examines how a literary relationship to urban spaces intersects with their artistic creation. This creation not only problematizes the experience ability of urban spaces, but it also represents an anthropological perspective in research on everyday urban life as postulated and realized by Sulima. Reading Białoszewski’s Chamowo through such lenses as anthropology of everyday life, auto-ethnography, contemporary research on urban spaces and geopoetics, Karpowicz demonstrates the enormous significance of literature for the study of urban spaces within the humanities. Her article also highlights the motif of the city and of the above-mentioned research contexts as key for the task of interpreting a work of literature that self-consciously thematizes its biographical and geographical rootedness

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