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Imre Oravecz: Ondrok gödre (The Ditch of Ondrok). Pécs, Jelenkor, 2007, 384 pp. Péter Farkas: Nyolc perc (Eight Minutes). Budapest, Magvetô, 2007, 111 pp. Ervin Lázár: Csillagmajor (Star Farmstead). Budapest, Osiris, 2005,184 pp.
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This article focuses on the distinction between Women’s Studies as an academic entity and feminism as a social movement. The author of the article questions the assumption that the political future of Women’s Studies as a field can be guaranteed by repairing the distinction between academic institutionalization and feminism as a world changing social force. The author worries more about the implications for Women’s Studies of refusing altogether the distinction between the academy and activism than about the difficulty of repairing the distinction between them.
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On the occasion of the second edition of La donna contro se stessa (Women against Themselves), Carla Ravaioli reread her book and commented on pre-feminist Italy and the circumstances and facts, which influenced the women’s struggles there and gave rise to the powerful wave of feminism in the late 1970s. The female author concluded that although society still continued to be dominated by the sign of the “male”, women were establishing themselves ever more steadily as a reforming power with its own voice in history.
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“The life – the only way to (…) // distinguish the pain/ from all things it is not like“. The Attempt to Read the Poems „Agony“, “Commenced Short Story“, “Identification“ (transl. by Radostina Petrova) / Main problem of this paper is the motif of suffering in some text of Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska. The problem of torture and its effect on individuality is represented in comparison of Szymborska’s poem Tortures and Jean Amèry’s essays Jeneseits von Schuld und Suhne. Similar topics, the moments in which an event is also inevitable reality, are represented in two other poems of Szymborska – Beginning of a story and Identification. Untypically for Szymborska there texts give a women’s point of view, her-story.
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The focus of this essay is Kathy Acker’s 1982 novel Great Expectations. The text attempts to make a reading of that extraordinary work by focusing on its playful and Protean nature and by “mapping out” the rhetorical strategies Acker uses in her response to various oppressive discourses of power.
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The article is dedicated to the untold until now relation between Wisława Szymborska’s poetry and Bolesław Leśmian poetic world. The intertextual figures are not obvious nor bright-line because they are to be found in Szymborska’s and Leśmian’s core understanding of the role played by poetry seen as an escape out of language, out of its crave for definitions and quantifiers. The article is centered on one of the earliest Szymborska’s poems – Kelpie, which is titled as one of the most famous Leśmian’s poems. It also gives account of numerous references to Bolesław Leśmian in Szymborska’s interviews, speeches and opinions, shared with her friends.
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According to the mass media, a postfeminist era emerged in the 1990s. The first objective is to develop a definition of the postfeminist perspective. Based on an informal content analysis of popular articles, the authors identify four postfeminist claims: (1) overall support for the women’s movement has dramatically eroded because some women (2) are increasingly antifeminist, (3) believe the movement is irrelevant, and (4) have adopted a “no, but... “ version of feminism. The second objective is to determine the extent of empirical support for these claims. Using existing public opinion data, the authors find little support for the four postfeminist claims. Implications of the unsubstantiated post-feminist argument are discussed.
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The article explores the emerging feminist project in post-communist Bulgaria and the post-Soviet bloc as a whole as a process of adopting and adapting Western liberal ideas in the building of civil society in the 1990s, further consolidated by the integration in the European Union and its new standards for gender equality and anti-discrimination policies. Using the methodology of cultural translation this incomplete and uneven project is viewed as feminism in/ as translation, i.e. not simply cultural transfer of foreign feminist ideas and practices but a complex process of translation, involving strategies of negotiation and resistance, of re-signification of meanings and re-writing of feminist knowledge as well as social transformation.
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Paper analyzes gastronomic motives in poems of Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska as an “universal operator of discourse” (R. Barthes). Its aim is to reveal anthropological reflections in texts, individual and universal story of seeking the world’s sense, connections between nature and human culture. The study concentrate on three main aspects of culinary motives: biological (satisfying man’s basic needs), social (interpersonal relations) and cultural (symbols in history, literature, methaphysics and ethic).
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Maria Graciete Besse is a Portuguese-born poetry and novel writer and university professor presently living in France. She has published many literary essays in both France and Portugal and edited various books of conference articles on Portuguese-speaking literature. Her essay “New Portuguese Letters and the challenge to the patriarchal power” presents and discusses the main topics in the so-called programme book of the Portuguese Feminism. Besse considers the book of “the three Marias” still interesting at the end of the 20th century and analyses it in the view of constantly shocking time – present and past, space – interior and exterior and universes – real and imaginary. The object in focus of the analysis is “the situation of the woman” in the Portuguese society since the 1950s. In her analysis Besse seeks to stress the moments that make of New Portuguese Letters a political text challenging the patriarchal power.
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