Regionalne pisarstwo kobiet (1918–1939). W stronę geopoetyki i komparatystyki (wstępne rozpoznania)

Bednarczuk, Monika: "Regionalne pisarstwo kobiet (1918–1939). W stronę geopoetyki i komparatystyki (wstępne rozpoznania)." Prace polonistyczne 75 (2020), 65–86. [https://doi.org/10.26485/PP/2020/75/3] [http://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/index.php/Prace-Polonistyczne/article/view/1061/965].

Regional Women’s Writing 1918–1939: Towards a Geopoetical and Comparative Approach

Literary texts, also–or especially–aesthetically mediocre or even pretentious, have been an important platform for political expression in the interwar Europe. A not insignificant number of Polish (and foreign) women writers in the 1920s and 1930s, such as Wanda Miłaszewska, Zofia Kossak, Pola Gojawiczyńska, and Halina Krahelska–to mention only a few representative names–, chose a strategy of personal or fictional narrative to write about female experience, regional culture and collective identity. However, while male writers’ contribution to literary regionalism has been documented to a fairly large extent, the involvement of women authors in the development of regional writing and regional identities has not been explored as thoroughly as it ought to be. This paper proposes a new approach to analyzing regional women’s writing by drawing particularly on studies of women’s literature, comparative literature and geopoetics. As a result a number of research questions are posed that should spark research in this area.