Scholarly Article

Provincializing Feminism in Polish Literary Studies

Galant, Arleta

2016-05-10 · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne · Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan

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Abstract

The author of the text analyzes the strategies of provincializing the Polish feminism and gender studies. Starting points for interpretations in the article are Dipesh Chakrabarty's book - Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference and feminist publications about modernity, nationalism, capitalism in Poland. In the article the category of a province is considered as an emblem existing in a new regionalism's discourse. The author claims that the history of the category of a province is entangled in the ambiguities which are related to the glocal understanding of a region; she also reflects on the relations between feminism, regionalism and local experiences of a global reality.

Keywords

category of province, Polish feminism, nationalism, new regionalism, literature, postcolonial thought, glocality

Citation Details

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, pp. 189-200