Published: 2022-12-27

The (Non)human Body: The Motif of Corporeality in Anna Adamowicz’s Animalia

Adriana Joanna Mickiewicz Logo ORCID

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse the motif of corporeality in the poetic book Animalia by a young Polish poet Anna Adamowicz. The methodology implemented was elaborated based on zoocriticism, a subdiscipline of Animal Studies, and lead to advancing the thesis that Adamowicz’s poems are a voice of dissent against treating nonhuman corporeality as inferior and reducing it to worthless, passive “meat”. In her poetry, Adamowicz shatters the anthropocentric hierarchy of species and shows the tragic consequences of human activity for the entirety of animal world. Another theme worth underscoring and pointing to in her poetry is climate change, the effects of which are particularly acute in the world of non-human animals.

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Mickiewicz, A. J. (2022). The (Non)human Body: The Motif of Corporeality in Anna Adamowicz’s Animalia. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (2 (10), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2022.10.07

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No. 2 (10) (2022)
Published: 2022-12-30


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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