Irene Sywenky
Biographic Data
| ID | 1252932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene Sywenky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | Sywenky |
| SIGNATURE | SYWENKY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Environmental thought and ecopoetics in the cultures of post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe
This article discusses the rise of an environmental awareness of place in post-socialist cultures as a reaction to decades-long authoritarian practices that had shaped and informed human beings’ relation with natural space. Drawing on examples of fiction and non-fiction from Poland and Ukraine (Andrzej Stasiuk, Iurii Andrukhovych, Olga Tokarczuk, and Halyna Pohutiak), this article focuses on the ecocritical and environmentally transformative pote…
Coming of age under martial law
Vassileva-Karagyozova’s study of the post-1989 initiation novel is a timely contribution to the critical examination of the political changes in Poland during the period of the fall of the Eastern
Memories of Displacement and Unhomely Spaces
History and collective trauma are inherently connected to the problem of time and memory on the one hand, and place and space on the other. Both commemoration and forgetting are articulated within specific spatial parameters and associated with particular places that are meaningful in the context of events that are constructed as historically important. The condition of being ‘historically conscious’ means that the ‘relationship between past and …
Representations of German-Polish Border Regions in Contemporary Polish Fiction
This article examines post 1989 Polish literary production that addresses German-Polish history and border relations in the aftermath of World War II and participates in the German-Polish dialogue of reconciliation. I consider the methodological implications of border space and spatial memory for the analysis of mass displacements in the German-Polish border region with particular attention to spatiocultural interstitiality, deterritorialization,…
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Representations of German-Polish Border Regions in Contemporary Polish Fiction
This article examines post 1989 Polish literary production that addresses German-Polish history and border relations in the aftermath of World War II and participates in the German-Polish dialogue of reconciliation. I consider the methodological implications of border space and spatial memory for the analysis of mass displacements in the German-Polish border region with particular attention to spatiocultural interstitiality, deterritorialization,…
Memories of Displacement and Unhomely Spaces
History and collective trauma are inherently connected to the problem of time and memory on the one hand, and place and space on the other. Both commemoration and forgetting are articulated within specific spatial parameters and associated with particular places that are meaningful in the context of events that are constructed as historically important. The condition of being ‘historically conscious’ means that the ‘relationship between past and …
Coming of age under martial law
Vassileva-Karagyozova’s study of the post-1989 initiation novel is a timely contribution to the critical examination of the political changes in Poland during the period of the fall of the Eastern
Environmental thought and ecopoetics in the cultures of post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe
This article discusses the rise of an environmental awareness of place in post-socialist cultures as a reaction to decades-long authoritarian practices that had shaped and informed human beings’ relation with natural space. Drawing on examples of fiction and non-fiction from Poland and Ukraine (Andrzej Stasiuk, Iurii Andrukhovych, Olga Tokarczuk, and Halyna Pohutiak), this article focuses on the ecocritical and environmentally transformative pote…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (3 works)