Anna Michalak
Akademia Humanistyczyno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi, Psychology, Department Member
- Phd in Polish literature, MA in psychology, MA in economicsedit
The sociology of knowledge approach to discourse assumes that cultural knowledge-and thus cultural spaces-are generated and shared through discourse. Actors' shared perceptions of vulnerability and practices to create resilience should be... more
The sociology of knowledge approach to discourse assumes that cultural knowledge-and thus cultural spaces-are generated and shared through discourse. Actors' shared perceptions of vulnerability and practices to create resilience should be interrelated with knowledge provided by the relevant discourses of local and historical influence. However, these assumptions have not been thoroughly examined. This study compares river-related knowledge (concerning humanriver relationships: ecocentric and anthropocentric perspectives) in the German and Polish literary canons, with knowledge provided in the relevant public media and the shared knowledge of local populations in flood-prone city districts along the Odra River. It concludes that actors' riverrelated knowledge interrelates with the knowledge produced by national and regional discourses and that culturally shared ideas of vulnerability and resilience are discursively embedded.
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Wulnerabilność Doroty Masłowskiej w obliczu "syndromu drugiej powieści" jako temat Pawia królowej D ebiut Masłowskiej Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną był wydarzeniem, w którym autor-ka i jej wizerunek pojawiły się równolegle z... more
Wulnerabilność Doroty Masłowskiej w obliczu "syndromu drugiej powieści" jako temat Pawia królowej D ebiut Masłowskiej Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną był wydarzeniem, w którym autor-ka i jej wizerunek pojawiły się równolegle z samym tekstem i były jego uzupełnieniem. Ubrana w dres Masłowska odgrywała w przestrzeni medialnej pew-ną rolę. Jej autokreacje, a także sposób promocji książki wytworzyły markę. Autorka stała się rozpo-znawalna, co miało wpływ na recepcję jej twórczości, a opinie o wartości literackiej samego tekstu były bar-dzo spolaryzowane. Tematem projektów Doroty Ma-słowskiej jest często własny wizerunek traktowany jako źródło sukcesu artystycznego, w którym uwagę koncentruje się raczej na sobie, a nie swojej twórczo-ści. Można go rozumieć jako markę autorską, której wytworzenie nie jest możliwe bez zaangażowania emocjonalnego odbiorców. Partycypacyjny wymiar twórczości nie działa na zasadzie spójnej liniowej nar-racji, lecz jest pewnym projektem tożsamościowym. "Dorota Masłowska" to dzieło interaktywne i multi-medialne, można powiedzieć: literatura poszerzona.
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This article discusses inter and post-war works of fiction written by Polish and German-speaking authors with biographical connections to Oder River regions. The literary texts provide insights into the vulnerability to and resilience... more
This article discusses inter and post-war works of fiction written by Polish and German-speaking authors with biographical connections to Oder River regions. The literary texts provide insights into the vulnerability to and resilience constructions of floods, which are related to such cultural factors as migrant histories and traditions, regional beliefs and religion, and the political background of changing frontiers in 1919 and 1945 that affected residents of this cross-border area.
The capacity to cope with the flooding Oder, especially after the major flood in 1997, intertwines with the problematic Polish-German relationship, including Silesia. For Polish communities, whose environmental cultures have been distorted by wars, resettlement and communism, vulnerability and resilience perceptions lack representations of the tangible river. It is culturally bounded in the stigmatising image of the Oder as the border of division, revived after 1945 and exposed by the Polish communist party in the so-called ‘Polonisation’ of the ‘Recovered Territories’. Fiction detects the problem of overworking the difficult past in response to the Oder’s hazardous nature. Writers representing an emotional attachment to the river and an aquacritical approach express the need to learn about the river’s lively nature, both in cooperating and sharing space, which is called the environmental adaptation.
The capacity to cope with the flooding Oder, especially after the major flood in 1997, intertwines with the problematic Polish-German relationship, including Silesia. For Polish communities, whose environmental cultures have been distorted by wars, resettlement and communism, vulnerability and resilience perceptions lack representations of the tangible river. It is culturally bounded in the stigmatising image of the Oder as the border of division, revived after 1945 and exposed by the Polish communist party in the so-called ‘Polonisation’ of the ‘Recovered Territories’. Fiction detects the problem of overworking the difficult past in response to the Oder’s hazardous nature. Writers representing an emotional attachment to the river and an aquacritical approach express the need to learn about the river’s lively nature, both in cooperating and sharing space, which is called the environmental adaptation.