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Julia Dickstein-Wieleżyńska (1881–1943) – a historian of literature and philosophy, poet, publicist, social and educational activist, as well as a translator of fiction and scientific literature from many languages – is still an under-appreciated figure in literary studies. The paper focuses on the general characteristics of Dickstein-Wieleżyńska’s activity as a transcultural mediator and translator, as well as on the role of translation against the background of her numerous interests and activities. Her unpublished correspondence with an anthropologist and historian of religion, Raffaele Pettazzoni (1883–1959), allows to see her translation work in a personal and sociological perspective, as a collaboration or translaboration (Alfer) between various agents of the translation process. Dickstein-Wieleżyńska’s lettersto Pettazzoni also show the limitations encountered by a female intellectual in the literary and scientific world of the first half of the twentieth century.
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The reviewed volume, Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe. Regime Archives and Popular Opinion, was written as a part of a long-term project headed by Muriel Blaive, the editor of the publication. The book included a comparative analysis of the history of communism in Czechoslovakia and to a lesser extent also inother countries of the bloc: single articles concerning Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the GDR. The reviewed book complements the existing state of research on communism from a transnational point of view and helps to better understand the experience that was shared by several generations of Central and Eastern Europeans. The author of the article underlines high level of the reviewed publication and draws attention to methodological innovation which is exploit a common experience of citizens of communist countries as a part of scientific inference.
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The author discusses Kinga Piotrowiak-Junkiert’s book From Idyll to Irony. Hungarian Literature on the Holocaust between 1944–1948 (Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan 2020).
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The article deals with contemporary discourse of polish reporters-travellers regarding the fate of the statues of Lenin (as well as the Mausoleum at the Red Square) after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The issues have been presented in a wider interpretative context. The author’s particular area of interest was the “biographic” depiction of the statue, including the late (often final) stages of its “life”. Travellers who “read” and “translate” the artefacts of the Bolshevik leader’s revolution into post-Soviet words attempt to outline the socio-political background conditioning the fate of communist monuments.
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This article is a contextual discussion of Sunaura Taylor’s pioneering book Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, dedicated to a parallel critique of anthropocentrism and ableism as two interlocking systems of oppression that propel each other. The review notes the prospects for a (critical) use of the American scholar’s thesis in literary studies, and points out examples of specific works deserving reinterpretation within such a framework.
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