Półka literacka w duchu ekokrytyki

Agnieszka Nęcka-Czapska

doi:10.31261/PS_P.2023.31.02

Published: 2023-06-15

Vol. 31 No. 1 (2023)

The literary bookshelf in the spirit of ecocriticism

Agnieszka Nęcka-Czapska

Section: Surveys

https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.31.02

Abstract

This brief outline presents the most interesting prose and poetry books published in the last five years (with a special focus on 2021 and 2022) that deal with pro-ecological themes. It discusses texts by such authors as Urszula Honek, Dominika Słowik, Olga Tokarczuk, Konrad Góra, Małgorzata Lebda, Joanna Roszak and Piotr Szewc. These authors renew the questions – which have been posed for a while now – about the role of man in the ecosystem and his relations with other creatures, about climate change and the consequences of the multifaceted destruction of nature. They look for what unites rather than divides humans and non-humans. Nature ceases to be just a backdrop to events and becomes a (co-)creator of human history. The authors not only encourage us to remember that everything – both life and death – belongs to a ‘closed cycle’, but also urge us to change our optics and renounce violence (including patriarchal violence). They speak of the need to see animals and treat them as fellow human beings. This is because a symbiosis with nature will allow one
to find stability, inner peace and, ultimately, oneself. It is worth appreciating what you have and enjoying the little things, because you never know what the future will bring. The sketch focuses on seven authors, but refers to many more names and titles, creating something like a panorama of writers who have taken up ecological themes in recent years.

Keywords:

21st century Polish literature , nature , ecology , summary

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Nęcka-Czapska, A. (2023). The literary bookshelf in the spirit of ecocriticism. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 31(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.31.02

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Agnieszka Nęcka-Czapska

agnieszka.necka@us.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0874-0295

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University of Silesia in Katowice Poland

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AGNIESZKA NĘCKA-CZAPSKA – associate professor, Institute of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland. Literary critic, literary scholar, author of articles and books devoted primarily to the prose of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Granice przyzwoitości. Doświadczanie intymności w polskiej prozie najnowszej [The Limits of Decency: Experiencing Intimacy in Recent Polish Fiction] (Katowice 2006), Starsze, nowsze, najnowsze. Szkice o prozie polskiej XX i XXI wieku [Older, Newer, Latest: Sketches on Polish Fiction of the XX and XXI Centuries] (Katowice 2010), Cielesne o(d)słony. Dyskursy erotyczne w polskiej prozie po 1989 roku [Bodily Revelations/Concealments Erotic Discourses in Polish Prose after 1989] (Katowice 2011), Co ważne i ważniejsze. Notatki o prozie polskiej XXI wieku [The Important and the More Important: Notes on Polish Fiction of the 21st Century] (Mikołów 2012), Emigracje intymne. O współczesnych polskich narracjach autobiograficznych [Intimate Migrations: On Contemporary Polish Autobiographical Narratives] (Katowice 2013), Polifonia. Literatura polska początku XXI wieku [Polyphony: Polish Literature at the Beginning of the 21st Century] (Katowice 2015). She is editor of the criticism section in “Postscriptum Polonistyczne” and co-editor of the series “Literatura i …” and “Skład osobowy. Szkice o prozaikach współczesnych”.

Vol. 31 No. 1 (2023)
Published: 2023-10-16

ISSN: 1898-1593

eISSN: 2353-9844

10.31261/PS_P

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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