Poetyka kulturowa a praktyka Joanny Bator
Cultural poetics and practice of Joanna Bator

Author(s): Angelika Siniarska-Tuszyńska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: cultural poetics; cultural practice; engaged writing; Joanna Bator; creative writing
Summary/Abstract: The book is devoted to the cultural practices of Joanna Bator – a cultural expert and researcher dealing with artistic writing. Her texts, which are part of the trend of engaged literature, have been subjected to analytical procedures in the area of cultural poetics. Cultural poetics, also called new historicism, was initiated by Stephen Greenblatt in the 1980s and is still a leading method of reading cultural works, taking into account the historical background. As a bundle of interdisciplinary discourses, it gives researchers endless interpretative possibilities in the fields of art and science. Artists, in turn, draw on Greenblatt's concept when they creating works. In Joanna Bator's texts, cultural poetics serves as a building block for expression, becoming a consistently repeated practice. The confrontation of theory with the artist's practical ways of approaching problems sheds new light on the coexistence and interpenetration of the terms: poetics and practice. Moreover, it allows you to take a look at contemporary writing trends. Cultural poetics and practice of Joanna Bator supplements the research issues within cultural studies and also expands the issue of creative writing. This is the first monograph devoted entirely to the Joanna Bator’s works, taking up cultural studies tropes such as: feminism, Others and Strangers, micro-narratives, place and non-place, generational and social conflicts, transgenerative traumas, cultural determinism, relationships with parents, psychoanalysis, somatopoetics, language constructing reality, travel as therapy, constructing identity, writing - a way of survival, therapeutic role of sadness, anthropology, autoethnography, postmodernism, wound, scar, lack, loss, consumerism, lifestyle trends (vegetarianism, minimalism, wabi-sabi).

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