Feminizowanie awangardy?
Feminizing the Avant-Garde?

Wanda Melcer’s “Na pewno książka kobiety” (“Surely a Woman’s Book”)

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to research “Na pewno książka kobiety (Surely a Woman’s Book)”, Wanda Melcer’s second poetic volume, concentrating mainly on the collection’s avant-garde inspirations, and placing it in the context of various theories of woman literature. A parallel reading of Melcer’s poems and selected works by Polish and Italian futurists leads to concluding that the Polish poetess employed and moderated some elements of futurist themes and aesthetics. The author also researches those poems in which the poetess efforts to do intersemiotic translations from avant-garde paintings in order to create literary counterparts of pointillist or cubist technique. The article also exhibits the emancipatory implication of some lyrics—this aspect is linked with the figure of “New Woman,” and at the same time with an archetypical image of creating woman.

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