https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/issue/feedPorównania2024-03-19T07:40:32+01:00Redakcja czasopisma "Porównania"comparis@amu.edu.plOpen Journal Systems<p>"Porównania” has been published annually since 2004 and biannually since 2011. It includes original works and translations of comparative research within literary studies, theory and history of culture, theory of science, anthropology, art study, the cinema, music but also comparative research on history, postcolonial studies, gender, pedagogy, law, contemporary media and the relationship between the humanities and natural sciences. There are also polemics, reviews, surveys of comparative works and a list of received books.</p> <p><strong>INDEXED IN: <br /></strong><a href="https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100449123">SCOPUS</a>, ERIH Plus, Index Copernicus<br /><br /><strong>JOURNAL METRICS:<br /></strong>Ministry of Education and Science (2024): <strong>100</strong></p> <p><strong>DOI:</strong> <a href="https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/index">10.14746/p</a><strong><br /><strong>ISSN: </strong></strong>1733-165X<strong><br /><strong>e-ISSN: </strong></strong>2956-6169<strong><br /><br /><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" rel="license"><img style="border-width: 0;" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nd/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a><br /></strong></p> <p><strong>DATA ARCHIVING<br /></strong>The PRESSto platform digitally preserves the content of this journal using the <a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-pn/">PKP Preservation Network</a> (PKP PN), which provides digital long-term preservation of data and secured access to the content of the journal.<br />The journal "Porównania" complies with the<a href="https://i4oc.org/#publishers"> I40C</a> standards for open citations.<br /><br /><strong>PUBLISHER<br /></strong><a href="https://amu.edu.pl/en">Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań</a><br /><br /></p>https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/35705Giving Space to the Tabooed Trauma: Sofia Taikon’s Testimony in Katitzi Z-1234 and Sofia Z-45152024-03-19T07:40:18+01:00Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampfmarina.hertrampf@uni-passau.de<p>Repression and concealment of one of the worst traumatic experiences of the 20th century affects Europe’s largest minority in a massive way. In contrast to the Shoa, the Porajmos is little known to many people of both the majority and the minority. Often repressed as a taboo, breaking the silence about this trauma is of central relevance for the self-confidence of the Roma, especially those born afterwards. In fact, in the case of victims and their children and grandchildren, there is a tension between repression and concealment on the one hand and the need to overcome trauma on the other. Using the example of two educational works for young minority and majority readers in which the painful memories of Polish Romani Sofia Taikon, born Brzezinska, are fictionalised, the article illustrates how this tension is dealt with and how space is given to the long-tabooed trauma.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampfhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/37904Changing Narratives of Jan and Maria Malisz’s Case (1933): Social, Legal and Cultural Perspectives2024-03-19T07:40:04+01:00Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskupjaworska.k@interia.plMichał Penomichal.peno@usz.edu.pl<p>In 1933, Cracow was the scene of a brutal murder of three people: Helena and Michał Süskind and Walenty Przebinda, a postman. The bloody slaughter of the victims had taken place on Pańska street, in the city centre of Cracow. It was soon revealed that the crime had been perpetrated by the impoverished couple Jan and Maria Malisz. The speedy public trial of the culprits ended with two death sentences. Jan was hanged after rendering the verdict. His wife Maria escaped death by being pardoned by the president of Poland, Ignacy Mościcki (1867–1946). The case triggered the attention of many commentators. It was widely described in the press. It was also the topic of many books and papers, especially documentaries dealing with the theme of famous crimes in Poland in the 1930s. Despite the great interest in the case, no critical research has been devoted thereto, which is the rationale behind this scholarly contribution. The paper discusses how the case of Jan and Maria was framed in various narratives. The analysis combines social, legal and popular culture perspectives and entails such sources as court documents, the press coverage, post-war legal documentaries, and Internet forums, as well as the 1972 film Na Wylot directed by Grzegorz Królikiewicz (1939–2017). It is of particular interest to show how the case was presented in the source material. The paper also investigates the effect of such a presentation on the changing perception of the case in question. The case prompts discussion on issues such as female versus male crime, partnership in crime, victim-oriented versus perpetrator-oriented approaches, and the intersection between legal and popular culture narratives. As far as the methodology is concerned, it employs Kaarlo Tuori’s theory of three levels of the law.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup, Michał Penohttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/36813Menachem Kaiser’s Quest for Family Heirloom and the Aftermath of Historical Trauma2024-03-19T07:40:10+01:00Tomasz Basiuktbasiuk@uw.edu.pl<p>Menachem Kaiser’s Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure (2021) critiques the generic limitations of the “3G” (third-generation) memoir by pointing to its frequently sentimental tenor and facile epiphanies, perpetuated by the publishing market. Plunder focuses instead on material traces of the past and on Kaiser’s effort to reclaim property left behind by his relatives in Poland. This approach allows Kaiser to address the aftermath of historical trauma without vicariously identifying with Holocaust victims or survivors.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Tomasz Basiukhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/37464Industrial Spaces That Won’t Go Away2024-03-19T07:40:08+01:00Paweł Tomczoktomczok@wp.pl<p>The article takes up the issue of space in the economics and philosophy of capitalism. Based on excerpts from Marx’s writings, I reconstruct the idea of annihilation of space and the metabolic rift. Using James Moor’s contemporary interpretations of these concepts, the article discusses industrial spaces in the Capitalocene. The perspective of the oikos, combining economics and ecology, has allowed me a new perspective on the issues of industrialization and deindustrialization and a reading of different cultural texts that deal with the issue of human impact on the environment. The second part of the article describes examples of degradation of the landscape of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, portrayed in selected films and photographs. The conclusion asks about the possibility of a hermeneutics of industrial space: the possibility of life after the disaster and the creation of meaning in a tentacular entanglement with beings other than humans.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Paweł Tomczokhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/38576The Dybbuk Speaks with the Mouth of the Living: Wartime Trauma and Strategies of Holocaust Remembrance in Hungarian Literature Between 1949 and 19532024-03-19T07:40:01+01:00Kinga Piotrowiak-Junkiertkinga.piotrowiak@gmail.com<p>The article deals with the subject of the Holocaust in Hungarian literature between 1949 and 1953, and in particular with the writing strategies used by the authors to describe a phenomenon that was silenced and removed from public debate. During the post-war period, when the Communists were in power in Hungary, it was forbidden to write about the war and especially about the Holocaust of the Jews; moreover, all literary texts had to be approved by the censors. Despite the strict restrictions, Hungarian writers managed to smuggle the forbidden topic into their novels. In this article, I discuss the prose of József Debreczeni, István Kamjén, and Ferenc Karinthy against the background of social and historical phenomena in Hungary.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Kinga Piotrowiak-Junkierthttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/34199In the Space of Cumulative Trauma: Lessons from a Hungarian Trauma-Novel in Vojvodina2024-03-19T07:40:23+01:00Kornélia Faragócorna@eunet.rs<p>In the case of deep trauma, literature is often unable to speak. In the Hungarian literature of Vojvodina, the general silence concerning the changes of empire and the reprisals describes the traumatic experience as an impulse that is impossible to put into a narrative. Nándor Burány’s book-length trauma novel, Összeroppanás (Implosion), published in 1968, looked back on the events from a quarter of a century later and for the first time thematised the task of processing transgenerational trauma. The novel’s distinctive feature is that it introduces the concept of trauma itself by asking questions about the identification of the time of the traumatic rupture. The real subject of his poetics is the way trauma works and its ineffable nature. The double vision so characteristic of trauma stories becomes here an important structural figure. In the moody world of trauma-induced thinking, the necessity and impossibility of speech at once torments the central figure of the novel. The novel is set in a space of cumulative trauma and processes trauma as a social construction based on lived experience. It also makes the point that trauma in this space cannot be located in a single inherent violent past event, but rather in a series of dates and events.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Kornélia Faragóhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/29764Post-Holocaust Migrations of Empathy: My Star by Felicja Raszkin-Nowak2024-03-19T07:40:32+01:00Anna Janickaa.janicka@uwb.edu.pl<p>Felicja Raszkin-Nowak still remains a little-known witness of the Holocaust. Born in Warsaw, she found herself in Białystok as a little girl during the war. Miraculously she survived the liquidation of the ghetto and hid on a farm, from where she was liberated. After the war, she worked at Polish Radio, and after March 1968 she emigrated to Denmark. In 1991, she published her memoirs titled My Star, translated into several languages. They are a faithful and shocking portrayal of war and the Holocaust, written with rare mastery. Raszkin-Nowak’s writing strategy combines several different perspectives: that of a child and an adult, a Polish woman and a Jew, a girl and a mature woman on the threshold of old age. Raszkin-Nowak uses an innovative storytelling technique that can be called empathetic realism. It enables the author to overcome the internal and external distance between the experience of childhood and the experience of war, the experience of cultural settlement and the experience of emigration, the time of events and the time of reminiscing.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Anna Janickahttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/34167Dead Rescuers: The Commemoration of Poles Who Lost Their Lives Saving Jews During the Second World War 2024-03-19T07:40:27+01:00Tomasz Łysaktlysak@uw.edu.pl<p>After their electoral victory in 2015, the Law and Justice party started a counter-revolution in historical policy, intended to undermine critical historiography on the Holocaust. As a result, “dead rescuers,” Poles who lost their lives saving Jews during the Second World War, are commemorated by a host of institutions: a government-sponsored research institute, museums, and the Catholic Church. This commemoration borrows its aesthetics from earlier practices established in Holocaust memory: post-traumatic architecture, lists of victims, and micro-history to boost national pride and defend the good name of Poland abroad. Memory actors receive financial support from the government, becoming a mouthpiece for its reclaiming of the past for ethnonationalist ends.</p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="justify"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Tomasz Łysakhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/36803The Vistula, Overgrown Shrubs, and Untended Gardens in the Literature of Postwar, Communist Warsaw2024-03-19T07:40:12+01:00Anna Barczanna.barcz@gmail.com<p>The article offers to combine the environmental history and memory of Warsaw on the example of analyses of literary works relating mainly to the post-1939-war and communist periods. These references involve specific places, such as the Vistula River, wastelands and abandoned allotments. In addition to brief exemplifications from Marek Hłasko and Dorota Masłowska, the psychogeographical interpretation of the environmental realities of post-war Warsaw in the People’s Republic of Poland was developed in the more detailed analysis of three novels by Tadeusz Konwicki: A Minor Apocalypse, Underground River, Underground Birds and Ascension. It turned out that the traumatic history of the city, which has not been recognized so clearly in the environmental sense, is applicable in the analysis of these novels and by greening the undeveloped wastelands.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Anna Barczhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/35633Representing the Ukrainian Migration Experience: From a Cultural Monologue Towards Interculturality2024-03-19T07:40:20+01:00Ryszard Kupiduraryszard.kupidura@amu.edu.pl<p>The text is devoted to literary, theatrical and film representations of the Ukrainian migration experience in Poland. The author notes that current artistic strategies, contrary to the intentions of Polish writers/artists, often reinforce stereotyping patterns of reception of the Other and unconsciously postulate an essentialist project of portraying a “real Ukrainian woman/man.” On the other hand, Ukrainian voices are increasingly heard in Polish space, which provides an opportunity not only to work through painful traumas from the past, but, due to the constant presence of Ukrainian co-residents, also to develop competences in recognizing mutual cultural codes, which in turn creates an opportunity to avoid generating new traumas in the future. The author devotes separate attention to the multidimensional Ukrainian-Ukrainian dialogue taking place in recent years in the territory of Poland, in other words, to the relations between the Ukrainian minority and Ukrainian migrants.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Ryszard Kupidurahttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/36508Stabat Mater: The Impossible Mourning in Teresa Ferenc’s Poetry2024-03-19T07:40:14+01:00Katarzyna Szopakatarzyna.szopa@us.edu.pl<p>The article discusses the feminist politics of mourning in the poetry of Teresa Ferenc. The main assumption of the text is to highlight the subversive potential of the medieval motive of Stabat Mater. By referring to feminist anthropology, as well as the psychoanalyst theory of Julia Kristeva, I argue that behind the figure of mother’s grieving lies not only the poet’s opposition to war, but also an ethical imperative of solidarity with others, i.e. nameless victims of any kind injustice provided by patriarchal-capitalist policy.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Katarzyna Szopahttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/37580The Scars of Memory: The Biographies of Monument Trees in Central Europe2024-03-19T07:40:06+01:00Wojciech Browarnywojciech.browarny@uwr.edu.pl<p>The author of the article examines monument trees, representing in history and culture traumatic social experiences. Using examples from Central Europe, he describes specific trees and their close environment (surroundings), looking for traces of dramatic events or processes from the past. On this basis, he reconstructs the biomemory of the region, which stores the “scars” of military conflicts, political violence, expulsions or cultural cleansings. The author argues that biomemory can function as an alternative history or counterhistory, preserve local tradition, inspire social practices, and conceptualize the relationship between the ideological, civilizational and organic perception of the natural environment.<br /><br /></p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Wojciech Browarnyhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/34105Neglected Trauma: The Lives of Women Dissidents and Émigrés in Daňa Horáková’s Memoirs2024-03-19T07:40:30+01:00Lucie Antošíková antosikova@ucl.cas.cz<p>At the end of the 1970s, the Czechoslovak State Security, under the banner of the so-called ASANACE (‘sanitation’) campaign, used brutal means to deport leading dissidents abroad and break up the domestic opposition. As a result, many cultural figures emigrated, among them Daňa Horáková, a philosopher and collaborator of Václav Havel. Drawing on her memoir and the testimonies of other Czech female dissidents (and émigrés), the text reflects on the difficulties that life in dissent brought to women, as well as the pitfalls in which women were most at risk of becoming traumatized. Among the most risky moments was emigration and the uprootedness associated with it. Against the backdrop of research on emigration and trauma in literature, the present study offers an interpretation of O Pavlovi as a testament to the destructive impact of power.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Lucie Antošíkováhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/36159Różewicz reconstructed?2024-03-19T07:40:17+01:00Krystyna Pietrychpietrych@op.pl<p>The article is a review of the book <em>Różewicz. Rekonstrukcja. I</em> [Różewicz. Reconstruction. I] by Magdalena Grochowska. It is the first part of her wide-ranging biographical work on Różewicz’s biography, which was published in the year of Różewicz's 100th birthday anniversary. The review presents the compositional idea of the biography, based on a chronological order (from his birth to about 1957). This order is treated freely by Grochowska, because it is often abandoned in favor of thematic and problematic approaches (e.g. the issue of Różewicz’s Jewish origin, his relationships with mother and wife, his participation in Armia Krajowa [Home Army] battles during the 2WW and its influence on his later dramas). Critical consideration was given to the strategy used by the author of the book – an overly simple combination of plan and creativity through the use of literary works as a direct commentary on the poet's existence. Attention was also paid to the undoubted advantages of the publication – the presentation of the results of work in archives, as well as Magdalena Grochowska's excellent reporting skills.</p> <p> </p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Krystyna Pietrychhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/34169Ecologizing Memory2024-03-19T07:40:25+01:00Anita Jarzynaanitajarzyna@gmail.com<p>Anna Barcz, Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe: Literature, History and Memory. London: Bloomsbury, 2020</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Anita Jarzynahttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/38848Transgression and tenderness. Olga Tokarczuk in Comparative Perspective2024-03-19T07:39:59+01:00Izabela Sobczakizasob@amu.edu.pl<p>The article is a review of the recently published by Routledge anthology <em>Olga Tokarczuk. </em><em>Comparative Perspectives</em>, edited by Lidia Wisniewska and Jakub Lipski. As the first alngo-language monograph on Tokarczuk, supported by a concrete methodological proposal, it finds a significant place in the international discourse of the author. In the Polish literary discourse, which has been divided, it also opens new interpretative paths. The authors of the anthology, passing the boundaries of traditional comparative literature, highlight the epistemological aspect of Tokarczuk’s work, the way of understanding the “bizarness”, as well as the sources of her aesthetics. It turns out that the social dimension of Tokarczuk's prose, also gains a personal character, and the tender narrator, moving along the comparative path, has a chance to break out of abstraction towards subjectivity.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Izabela Sobczakhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/39281E.T.A. Hoffmann in Warsaw. The New Book by Peter Lachmann2024-03-19T07:39:56+01:00Kornelia Ćwiklakkornelia.cwiklak@amu.edu.pl<p>Article by Kornelia Ćwiklak entitled <em>E.T.A. Hoffman in Warsaw. The new book by Peter (Piotr) Lachmann</em> contains an overview of the book by the Polish-German poet, writer and translator devoted to the stay of E.T.A. Hoffmann in Warsaw. The author outlined a broad historical, topographical and cultural context – especially literary and musical – of the Warsaw period of the life of the outstanding German Romantic (1804-1807). He combines a critical review of the existing state of research with an essayistic style, not free from autobiographical narration related to his own experience of Warsaw, which has been the place of the writer's life for 30 years. Translating the reviewed book into Polish would help fill the gap in knowledge about the Warsaw years of E.T.A. Hoffmann.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Kornelia Ćwiklakhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/42544Central European traumas – the space that doesn’t want to go away2024-03-16T21:16:46+01:00Kinga Piotrowiak-Junkiertkinga.piotrowiak@gmail.comMarta Tomczokmarta.tomczok@us.edu.pl2023-12-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023