„To be with the space” – to teach about world. Educational aspects of interpreting contemporary literature

Abstract

The article contains a consideration about contemporary prose and its educational values. Interpretations of books written by Filip Springer, Julia Fiedorczuk, Anna Janko, Andrzej Stasiuk may be treated as examples of connections between nowadays literature and global and local problems that torment our societies. The consequences of spatial turn in humanistic researches bring many changes, not only on cultural discourses. There are also important transformations of other areas of research, as politics, patterns of common memory and ideology, as well as the processes of establishing the rules of social life. The growing interest into the spatial dimension of individual and collectiva experience provides to the reformulation of other basic terms such as language, subject, culture, literary and artistic practice, and finally, the research and the researcher’s position in the sphere of his new rights.