Mirosława Szott
Konteksty Kultury, Volume 13, Issue 4, 2016, pp. 469 - 486
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.16.027.6766Papusza was a unique personality and her songs are unique as well. However, her gypsy literature is not very well known because of its immanent qualities. It is rather considered of secondary importance and is treated only contextually. Its most important aspect is the legend around Papusza. Thus, in this article, I will focus on the literature (embedded in the context of biography and cultural practices). My aim is to look at Papusza’s songs from new research perspectives. As a tool for the analysis I will use strategies of reading developed by geopoetics and ethnopoetics, and, marginally, by feminist research. In the centre of the discussion there will be the notion of the space of the forest. The imaging of this site is, in fact, a common area of analysis for the above-mentioned methodologies.
Mirosława Szott
Konteksty Kultury, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 94 - 104
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.15.007.3703Marek Lobo Wojciechowski is a Lubusz writer intereseted in heterotopia phenomenon of the Western Lands of Poland. He attempts to understand and describe the Polish-German history of the place. This article is composed of two parts. First part concerns the image of the city that is presented in Wojciechowski’s poems. It is a place marked with the traces of its previous inhabitants. The second part shows the space of “post-Yalta Occident” in microscale: a house and things being inside. My goal is to answer the question whether the vision of Gorzów in this output is the image of two superimposed cities with palimpsest nature, or a merged city with dualistic nature.