Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 14/2024: Recent submissions
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Filling the Gaps in Broken Memory while Renewing the Cityscape: Navigating Belonging in Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The Red-Haired Woman, one of Orhan Pamuk’s post-Nobel novels, is a concise, fable-like narrative that delves into the complexities of father-son conflicts. The novel parallels the journey of the protagonist, Cem, with the ... -
“This house is so lonely!”: Home, Belonging, and Identity in Memoirs of Loss and Grief
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This analysis explores select autobiographical representations of relationships the bereaved develop with their surroundings in the context of a major death-related loss. After a significant loss, the concepts of home, ... -
Cathartic Paths of the Gothic in Ciemno, prawie noc by Joanna Bator
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The aim of this paper is to investigate how the Gothic is employed in Joanna Bator’s novel Ciemno, prawie noc [Dark, Almost Night]. I frame my analysis on the author’s assertion that “Poland is a horror,” exploring firstly ... -
Back in the Old Country: Homecoming and Belonging in Leonard Kniffel’s A Polish Son in the Motherland: An American’s Journey Home and Kapka Kassabova’s To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Homecoming travel narratives are typically written by first-wave immigrants, their children, or grandchildren. Usually, homecoming books are accounts of emotionally charged travels that oscillate between nostalgia and ... -
Belonging and Longing: The Question of the Subject in Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The philosophy of Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion departs from the transcendental role of the subject. No longer is the subject regarded as its own foundation, nor does it own or constitute its objects. Instead, it ... -
The Challenge and Gift of Being-in-the-World: The Hermeneutics of Dwelling and (Be)longing
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Dwelling and Departure: Beginning Disputes between Arendt and Heidegger
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In “Letter on Humanism,” Martin Heidegger juxtaposes the notion of homelessness (Heimlosigkeit) with home-coming (Heimholung), i.e. the reawakening to our original relationship to Being. This focus on dwelling in Being ...