Poetry of Open Wounds. Teresa Ferenc’s Stigmatexts
Abstract
The article is an attempt at reading the poetry of Teresa Ferenc through the prism of feminist politics of mourning. Using Hélène Cixous’s neologism “stigmatext,” I argue that the figure of an “open wound” constitutes Ferenc’s poetic imagination. This figure refers not only to the tragic event of pacification of Sochy – Ferenc’s family village – but also to the specifically understood relation with mother as is conceived in our culture.
Motherhood functions here as a synecdoche of stigmatized otherness. From this point of view, poetry of open wounds emerges as an integral element of Ferenc’s ethical program, which is opposed to the phallogocentric logic of war, death, and destruction.
Keywords
mourning; feminist philosophy; stigmatext; Hélène Cixous; women's poetry
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University of Silesia in Katowice Poland
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Katarzyna Szopa – literary scholar, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia in Katowice. She also teaches Gender Studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN). Her research interests include contemporary feminist theories and philosophies. She is the author of the monographs Poetyka rozkwitania. Różnica płciowa w filozofii Luce Irigaray [Poetics of blossoming. Gender difference in Luce Irigaray’s philosophy] (Lupa Obscura, IBL 2018), Wybuch wyobraźni. Poezja Anny Świrszczyńskiej wobec reprodukcji życia społecznego (WUŚ 2022) and numerous essays and articles devoted, among others, to Luce Irigaray’s philosophy, contemporary women’s poetry, and feminist criticism. She co-edited Dyskursy gościnności. Etyka współbycia w perspektywie późnej nowoczesności [Discourses of hospitality. The ethics of coexistence in the perspective of late modernity] (IBL, 2018) and Płeć awangardy [The Gender of the Avant-garde] (University of Silesia Press, 2019). Since 2014, she has been cooperating with Luce Irigaray and manages the philosopher’s website: workingwithluceirigaray.com. She translated Luce Irigaray’s texts into Polish. She has published her works, among others, in “Pamiętnik Literacki,” “Teksty Drugie,” “Praktyka Teoretyczna”, “Wielogłos” and “Znak”. She is on the editorial board of “Praktyka Teoretyczna” and “Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne.”
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