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Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Cuerpos poéticos de un océano a otro: Cristina Peri Rossi, Ana Rossetti (hispanas); Denise Desautels y Louise Dupré (quebequesas)

Marina López Martínez

Langue: ES | Date de publication: 27-01-2021 | Résumé | p. 90-99

The body is a way of being in the world and to contemplate it. The body limits, interacts and enjoys while gender captivates and creates. Geography confines, epoch determines and circumstances may be decisive. The work exposes such aspects in the poetry of four women who belong to the same generation, but to different geographic areas. More specifically, it shows writing as a projection of the woman; the body as lyrical subject and object and hand as part and symbol of the fullness and the collapse of corporeality, especially female corporeality. The topics dealt with in the paper will be, on the one hand, how the body inhabits the world and what its relationship with the writing is, and on the other hand, the study will analyze the hand as a metonymy of the female body and the changes due to the passing of time.

2021-01-27



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Girlhood, Disability, and Liminality in Barbara Gowdy’s Mister Sandman

Anna Czarnowus

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

Barbara Gowdy’s 1996 novel Mister Sandman centers on the mysteriously silent figure of Joan Cannary, a mentally disabled child who yet does not become a spectacle of the grotesque in the mode quite standard for representations of the disabled female figures, as Rosemarie Garland Thomson noticed in her magisterial study Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. In her disability Gowdy’s Joan does not constitute a metaphor of the condition of her family, either, despite the transgressions they are prone to devote themselves to. The novel offers an open-minded outlook on transgression as a means of liberating oneself from the social constraints and from the self-imposed limitations. Joan’s eternal girlhood makes her a lens for the family members’ tendency to transgress against the norms, which is ultimately received with affirmation. Her figure offers a valuable commentary on other texts by Gowdy, which present a discourse on the liminality of human body and on the boundaries of identity.


Key words: Barbara Gowdy, Canadian novel in English, disability, body, gender.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Pudeur et impudeur comme modalités de construction d’un corps politique chez Hervé Guibert

Arnaud Genon

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

Modesty and Immodesty as a Modality of Construction of a Political’s Body in Hervé Guibert’s Work


Modesty and immodesty are two movements used by Hervé Guibert to build a unique picture of his body that I propose to examine in this article in order to highlight a politics of the Guibertian’s body. The multiple body escapes any form of confinement, restriction and constructs itself without any sign of sexual normativity. Guibert refuses both heterosexual and homosexual models and anchors himself in another space, uncertain and undefined.

Key words: Hervé Guibert, political’s body, modesty and immodesty.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Corpo femminile come strumento d’indagine nel romanzo Acciaio di Silvia Avallone

Małgorzata Puto

Langue: IT | Date de publication: | Résumé

Body Image as the Way to Express Femminity Acciaio by Silvia Avallone

The analyzed text puts a great emphasis on the human as physical beings in a physical world, in which body image is a meaningful and conscious way to express identity. The female identity includes concepts of self-esteem, self-perception, sexuality and social role and it can be challenging for a number of reasons. Body image can be a powerful way to fulfill the social expectations but it can also be very vulnerable because appearances change so much and cultural messages that fuel dissatisfaction can be very strong. Having a beautiful body can easily be linked to the concepts of success, sexuality, great expectations. Having ugly body can lead to emargination and struggling against the world that from the ancient times promotes the value of beauty in female.

Key words: body-conscious, identity, evolution, postmodernism.




Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Indocile Bodies: Bodily Transgressions in Selected Canadian Movies

Tomasz Sikora

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

The article looks at the representations of corporeality, desire and transgression in selected films by David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin and Bruce LaBruce. The body acquires some kind of independence in these films, and the forces of excess that work in/though it (drives, desires) push the modern subject into various acts of transgression, thus threatening its propriety and stability. At a cultural level, this phenomenological instability of body- and self-boundaries may be linked to the Canadian sense of a “weak” national identity, rephrased by some as a positive case of “queer” nationality.

Key words: Body, desire, sexuality, transgression, excess, queer, Canadian cinema.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Nouvelles sources de la peur dans le récit néofantastique de Jean-Pierre Andrevon

Katarzyna Gadomska

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The purpose of this article is to present new sources of fear in short fantastic stories of Jean-Pierre Andrevon. First, it is necessary to underscore the anxiogenic role of the Uncanny – the malaise born out of rupture in everyday life which was once reassuring. The paper discusses the discourses of space and body – both origins of the Uncanny penetrate each other, become in the indubitable report, follow the reciprocate, often regressive dynamic. The familiar space metamorphoses into the space of a scary and distended geometry; the healthy, normal body transforms into a strange and alien one; the fragmentation of the body designates the disintegration of the familiar space. In brief, short fantastic stories of JeanPierre Andrevon emphasize particularly the isotopic acuity of the fragmentation of the body and the fragmentation of the space. The topic is analyzed using psychoanalysis and, especially, psychoanalytic terms like the Uncanny, the return of the repressed and the mirror stage.


Key words: fear, Uncanny, psychoanalysis, space, body, fantastic literature, Jean-Pierre Andrevon




Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Livre sanctifié ou pulpe écorchée ? Le corps dans la poésie d’Umar Timol

Aleksandra Nocoń

Langue: FR | Date de publication: 27-01-2021 | Résumé | p. 65-76

The article concerns the place of corporeality in the poetry of a Maurician francophone poet Umar Timol. One can distinguish four main attitudes towards the human body in Timol’s texts: body as an object of worship or – on the contrary – of disdain and condemnation, body as a humanitarian challenge and as an object of self-reflection. The absence of typically Western dualism of physical versus spiritual in Mauritian poet’s philosophy procures a new and exotic perspective for European readers. The author ponders the purpose and motifs which could stay behind such standpoints mainly by analysing the poems in the context of Mauritian culture and comparing them to other Muslim or Indian texts.

2021-01-27



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Representaciones y consumo del cuerpo femenino negro en la poesía negrista antillana

Agnieszka Flisek

Langue: ES | Date de publication: 27-01-2021 | Résumé | p. 33-47

In Cuban and Puerto Rican negrista poetry (no matter what ethnicity the author is to be ascribed to) the black or mulatto females are depicted uniquely in accordance to their external
attributes. Works by Nicolás Guillén and Luis Palés Matos draw attention to their fractured beauty and the artificiality of their body, which tends to acquire purposes the white body (the vehicle
for reason) lacks, namely, that of augmented sexuality. In this meaning, their bodies represent the desired ones. Nonetheless, the configuration of racial identity through physique implies that the female subject is severed from its specific historical circumstances: the black or mulatto female body serves as the national symbol. The picturesqueness of African origin, which these females
incarnate, invokes untamed and savage sensuality, hints at its ludic and festive nature (Jáuregui, 2008), and furthermore replaces and suppresses the harsh reality of a subject exploited by agroindustry and (neo)colonial sugar companies that operated within the area. In other words, such depiction disguises the fact that they are only labour bodies. From the perspective of such sexualized and racialized portrayal of female corporeality, the aim of the paper is to answer Hélène Cixous’s dilemma: “Where is she?”

2021-01-27



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Amoscritura: «cuerpos atrabesados». Somatología poética de Mario Martín Gijón

Ewa Śmiłek

Langue: ES | Date de publication: 29-01-2021 | Résumé | p. 100-113

The body, although not presented in a direct way, connects the two main themes of Rendicción (2013), the second volume of poetry by Mario Martín Gijón. Based on the theory of José Enrique Finol (presented in the work La corposfera. Antropo-semiótica de las cartografías del cuerpo, 2015), I carry out an analysis of how the corporeality is depicted in the poetry of Martín Gijón. In the said poetry book, the body has not only obtained the status of the object (linked to the themes of love and eroticism), it has also become an assistance of the artistic activity. In this way, the poetry is embodied (Merleau-Ponty, 1993), the word is a living body with all its creative powers.

2021-01-29



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Religion of the Father? Judaism, Anti-Judaism, and the Family Romance

Agata Bielik-Robson

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

One of the most common clichés of our culture defines Judaism as the “religion of the Father.” For some this is just a neutral description referring to the fatherly aspect of the Jewish
God; for others this is the very epitome of the patriarchal prejudice which privileges the masculine Father Figure at the expense of everything maternal. In my essay, however, I would like to challenge this staple association, by pointing to the simple fact that Jews themselves very rarely – if ever – describe their religion in openly patriarchal terms. In fact, when described in psychoanalytic terms, the role of the Father is here merely transitory: he is to inaugurate a series of subsequent detachments, starting from the disintegration of the first bonds of love (to maternal body and, more generally, to the body of nature) and ending with the complete neutralisation of the “family romance.” The Father Figure, therefore, is called upon only to counteract the power of the primordial “attachments” and initiate a process of separation which will allow the subject to establish himself as a free and mature moral agent, truly “born” into the world.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

El cuerpo reflejado. Los cuerpos dobles y los dobles corporales en la poesía española actual

Vicente Luis Mora

Langue: ES | Date de publication: 27-01-2021 | Résumé | p. 51-64

The portraying of the subjects in front of the looking glass is a literary topic in which the body is involved in a range of possibilities. From the corporeality of the “other” reflected by/in the narcissistic or self-critic perspective about the appearance of oneself, the mirror offers to Spanish contemporary poets a fruitful frame to explore all the variations of anagnorisis and dis-cognition. The text develops a theoretical and cultural episteme in order to read the work of a number of Spanish poets, in which the body analysed in the looking glass could adopt the form of grief, complaint, egotistical exposure, cultural references (e.g. Alice or Narcissus), or technological exam.

2021-01-27



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Sexual Politics: Mapping the Body in Marguerite Duras’s L’Amant

Richard J. Gray II

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

In L’Amant (1984), through the juxtaposition of traditional male/female sexual roles, Marguerite Duras painted a gynocentric portrait of sexual politics. By depicting a series of encounters in diverse parts of the Indochinese (Vietnam) landscape, Duras’s novel described the sexual “coming of age” story of her female protagonist’s. Each Vietnamese setting became a visual and sensory metaphor for the various developmental stages of the protagonist. In this essay, I contend that Duras’s use of contrasting settings serves to “flesh out” the sexual politics conveyed in the novel. Herein, I examine the geographic locations illustrating the sexual politics of the novel, including the Mekong River signifying the female protagonist’s rite of passage, Cholon, the city where the girl experiences sexual liberation and a struggle with the established authority, the lover’s apartment where the couple consummates their relationship, and finally, France representing the land of wealth to which the protagonist will eventually return.


Key words: autobiography, Judith Butler, Cholen (Cholon), colonisation, crossing, gender, juxtaposition, Marguerite Duras, Julia Kristeva, liberation, liminal space, mapping the body, Mekong, Kate Millett, Other, post-colonial, prostitution, sexploitation, sexuality, sexual politics.

In L’Amant (1984), through the juxtaposition of traditional male/female sexual roles, Marguerite Duras painted a gynocentric portrait of sexual politics. By depicting a series of encounters in diverse parts of the Indochinese (Vietnam) landscape, Duras’s novel described the sexual “coming of age” story of her female protagonist’s. Each Vietnamese setting became a visual and sensory metaphor for the various developmental stages of the protagonist. In this essay, I contend that Duras’s use of contrasting settings serves to “flesh out” the sexual politics conveyed in the novel. Herein, I examine the geographic locations illustrating the sexual politics of the novel, including the Mekong River signifying the female protagonist’s rite of passage, Cholon, the city where the girl experiences sexual liberation and a struggle with the established authority, the lover’s apartment where the couple consummates their relationship, and finally, France representing the land of wealth to which the protagonist will eventually return.


Key words: autobiography, Judith Butler, Cholen (Cholon), colonisation, crossing, gender, juxtaposition, Marguerite Duras, Julia Kristeva, liberation, liminal space, mapping the body, Mekong, Kate Millett, Other, post-colonial, prostitution, sexploitation, sexuality, sexual politics.

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