Browsing Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 12/2022 by Issue Date
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The Butterfly Effect: Creating and Recreating the Story of Madame Butterfly, on Paper and on Stage
Szuster, Magdalena
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)
The consequences of the partially coerced opening of Japan to the Western world in the second half of the 19th century went far beyond economic and political goals and considerations. The previously secluded land almost ... -
“The Only Way Out Is In”: Transcending Modernity and Embracing Interconnectedness in Gary Snyder and Kenneth White
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)It seems that in order to overcome the current ecological crisis we need a new (global?) narrative. If the narrative of “progress” that has functioned as one of the Western cultural myths is linked to the notions of modernity ... -
Narrating Wonder in Mark Anthony Jarman’s Stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Mark Anthony Jarman’s characters are often down and out, and often wandering and wondering. Using theories of wonder, this essay argues that wonder plays a key role in many of Jarman’s stories—stories that are marked not ... -
Comics in the Anthropocene: Graphic Narratives of Apocalypse, Regeneration and Warning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Narratives of the Anthropocene function in the realm of not only scientific but also popular discourses. Indeed, the most popular narratives of the Anthropocene, namely the story of the apocalypse and the story of progress, ... -
Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The essay discusses images of the future in solarpunk and post-apocalyptic fiction, focusing on their distinct approach to the narratives of progress, science, and individualism. The dystopian perspective of post-apocalyptic ... -
Apocalypse When? Storytelling and Spiralic Time in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Contemporary climate fiction (cli-fi) frequently invokes the concept of apocalypse to explore the experience of living through the era of unprecedented climate change and environmental disaster that has been named the ... -
Past Conditional Subjectivities: Enacting Relationships with the Non-Human in the Work of Ana Mendieta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Inspired by what literary scholar Lisa Lowe calls “the past conditional temporality”—or the “what could have been”—this paper examines how the work of 20th-century Cuban American performance artist Ana Mendieta challenges ... -
The Nature of Irrevocability: Anthropocene Nostalgia in Hayley Eichenbaum’s Photography Series The Mother Road
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The recent acknowledgement of the Anthropocene, resulting from the increasingly visible human-induced effects on the biosphere, has ultimately obliterated the nature/culture division (Latour; Chakrabarty), prompting ... -
How Deep Time Can Help Shape the Present: Existential Economics, “Joyful Insignificance” and the Future of the Ecological Transition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)An awareness of deep time—both humanity’s deep past and the Earth’s deep future—and an understanding of its existential implications can significantly enhance the chances that humanity might still be able to transition ... -
Apocalypse . . . Eventually: Trans-Corporeality and Slow Horror in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)This article examines M. R. Carey’s 2014 zombie apocalypse novel The Girl with All the Gifts through the ecofeminist concept of trans-corporeality as defined by Stacy Alaimo in Bodily Natures. Carey’s heroine Melanie ... -
“The Paradise of How It Has to Be”: Writing About the Future of the Earth in a Time of Decline. A Conversation with William deBuys
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Winter’s Tales
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Robustness and Vulnerability: Caring for the Earth in an Age of Loss
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A Review of Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation, edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Cieślak, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)
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Environmental Neocolonialism and the Quest for Social Justice in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The article addresses the problems of environmental degradation, as illustrated and explored in Imbolo Mbue’s recent novel How Beautiful We Were (2021), which juxtaposes the fictional oil company Pexton’s corporate greed ... -
Echoes of Rituals of Initiation and Blood Sacrifice in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)In Heart of Darkness, the protagonist Kurtz, of whom we do not, in fact, see much, is shown as connected with a native “sorcerer,” a “witch-man,” who had “antelope horns” on his head. Antelopes, or goats, are typical ... -
Monet at a Glance: A Dynamic, Ekphrastic Encounter in Michèle Roberts’s “On the Beach at Trouville”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The essay analyzes Michèle Roberts’s 2012 story “On the Beach at Trouville” as an ekphrasis of Claude Monet’s early Impressionist painting, The Beach at Trouville. It first approaches the narrative though W. J. T. Mitchell’s ... -
Affective Realities and Conceptual Contradictions of Patricia Piccinini’s Art: Ecofeminist and Disability Studies Perspectives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The recent exhibition of Patricia Piccinini’s art called That’s Us (Toruń, CSW) largely represents the Australian artist’s visions and fascinations known from earlier exhibitions. Questioning and erasing the borders between ... -
Sympoiesis, Autopoiesis and Immunity: How to Coexist with Nonhuman Others?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)In this essay I will discuss Donna J. Haraway’s notion of sympoiesis and examine different modes of cohabitation or hybridization with nonhuman others. Such concepts as sympoiesis, or holobiont, question the notion of the ...