Non-places as Spatial Paradigms of the Subject in Jak pokochać centra handlowe by Natalia Fiedorczuk Cover Image

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Non-places as Spatial Paradigms of the Subject in Jak pokochać centra handlowe by Natalia Fiedorczuk

Author(s): Agnieszka Gawron
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: literary space; maternal subject; postpartum depression; motherhood; literature

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at reading Natalia Fiedorczuk’s text (Jak pokochać centra handlowe [How to fall in love with shopping centers] in the perspective of Marc Aug´e’s theory of non-places (non-lieux) and Ewa Rewers’ concept of the subject as a non-place. The author uses the strategy in which attributes of non-place as a physical space are combined with the ontological status of the subject. It lets me define depressive condition of the mother as a transitive one, constituted on the figures of movement, anonymity and loneliness. This strategy also incorporates into maternity discourse the issues marginalized in cultural awareness (depression, emotion policy and maternal memory).

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 199-211
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish