Bożena Karwowska
Biographic Data
| ID | 2445413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bożena Karwowska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bożena |
| FAMILY NAME | Karwowska |
| SIGNATURE | KARWOWSKA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6115-1692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poesis in Extremis
Wielka podróż zwykłych ludzi [The great journey of ordinary people]
One of the results of Polish academics embracing postcolonial approaches is the growing interest in the changes within the social structures and relations between various groups of people in postwar Poland. In addition, the political changes at the end of the last millennium allow researchers to re-examine Polish history, especially regarding the twentieth century. As part of the Soviet Bloc (roughly between 1949 and 1989), the Polish postwar reg…
If This Is a Woman
For Holocaust scholars who are conversant with feminist and gender approaches it is quite obvious that while interest in women and female perspectives is steadily growing, there are still not enough publications and research in the area. Quite often, gender-oriented research on the Holocaust is seen as the domain of women scholars, and, as such, it is relegated to the margins. This is especially true in the case of Eastern Europe, with the recent…
Edukacja jako narzędzie sprawowania władzy
This article discusses the role of education in the creation of modern society. Drawing upon her observations on the situation of indigenous peoples in Canada and the colonisation processes carried out through education, such as depicted in Joanna Gierak-Onoszko’s reportage 27 śmierci Toby’ego Obeda [The 27 deaths of Toby Obed], the author analyses Natalia Rolleczek’s Drewniany różaniec [The wooden rosary] and Alicja Iwańska’s Baśń amerykańska [T…
Narracje krajobrazu. Rampa w Auschwitz
This article addresses the impact of museum activities and the politics of remembrance and commemoration on the transformation of Holocaust landscapes. These landscapes, fixed in literary texts in a particular moment and a specific form, have undergone many transformations over the decades and have been affected by various, often politically motivated, processes. As the author proves, it would appear that these transformations do not necessarily …
Non omnis moriar
The Books of Jacob [Księgi Jakubowe]
In today's world, where the majority of people have a reading attention span limited to what fits the screen of their smartphone, presenting a novel of nearly 1,000 pages might seem surprising, to say the least. Moreover, with digital versions of books gaining an ever larger share of the publishing market, a novel that, because of its graphic elements, best reads as a printed version, rather seems to ignore the realities of the contemporary reade…
Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories
Tadeusz Borowski is arguably the best-known Polish writer among English-language audiences, though his literary works are not studied in English-speaking countries as part of Polish literature. His fame is due, in large part, not to his contribution to the literature of Eastern Europe, but to the knowledge of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Borowski's short stories are, in fact, commonly compared to the autobiographical works of Primo Levi and Elie …
Wiek teorii
It is a well-known fact that literary theory is not just a static set of categories used to analyze and discuss literary texts, but an academic field with approaches and categories that are constantly changing. Each theory is connected with a specific time in history, and—to a large degree—also with international cultural centers and literary developments of their respective times. There is still, however, not enough work done to recognize that n…
Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction
[Editor's note: In The Polish Review 66, no. 1 (2021), Angela Pienkos reviewed Grażyna Kozaczka's book within the methodological framework of ethnic studies. Bożena Karwowska's review, in contrast, combines an ethnic studies approach with a focus on gender and literary analysis.]Contemporary societies, especially those built on conquered lands by various groups and waves of immigrants, have been searching not only for their own national identitie…
Olga Tokarczuk’s “Écriture féminine
This article discusses Olga Tokarczuk as a novelist who has developed a unique literary style, an inimitable blend of visual and verbal elements. Referencing her novels (and bearing in mind the order of their development in relation to the development of the authorial techniques), the author discusses how Tokarczuk challenges the traditional communication model as well as traditional ways of looking at the process of creation. Utilizing observati…
Z perspektywy Zachodniej Kanady o akademickich programach języka i literatury polskiej
Tematem artykułu jest sytuacja kursów języka i literatury polskiej na uniwersytetach w Ameryce Połnocnej. Zmniejszająca się liczba studentów zainteresowanych zajęciami z kultury polskiej, będąca wynikiem wielu czynników, prowadzi do ograniczania kursów. Sytuacji nie pomaga łączenie wydziałów slawistycznych z germanistycznymi. W ostatnich latach wzrasta natomiast zainteresowanie tematyką polsko-żydowską, co może pomóc w rozwinięciu np. lektoratów …
Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures
Marta
Kultura chłopska w optyce prasy społeczno-kulturalnej lat 1944-1948. „Warszawa” i dyskusje nad modelem kultury powojennej Polski
Artykul opisuje powojenne proby stworzenia modelu kultury PRL-u w oparciu o wartości literatury ludowej. Promując kulture i literature chlopską jako atlernatywną dla politycznie promowanej kultury opartej na wartościach i osiągnieciach klasy robotniczej, publicyści skupieni wokol czasopisma „Warszawa” jednocześnie utrudnili zbadanie i opisanie sytuacji wsi i jej mieszkancow w okresie okupacji niemieckiej, a szczegolnie stosunku chlopow do ukrywaj…
Exile in Postwar Polish Women’s Prose
The article deals with the lives of postwar Polish emigration as portrayed in literary works by Polish émigré women writers. It begins with the “domestic” theme whose prominence in the works in question can be at least partly explained by the fact that in Poland, for historical and political reasons, the public and private spheres had acquired a different character than in the West. The blurring of the line separating the two spaces and the image…
The Female Persona in Wisława Szymborska’s Poems
Wisława Szymborska’s poetry (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1996) has gained wide acclaim not only in her native Poland but also abroad, including the English-speaking countries, where translations of her work have appeared both in book form and in numerous periodicals. Yet the critical response has been largely disappointing. This may be due to the fact that Szymborska’s poetry transcends both patriarchal and feminist categories. It creates models …
Czesław Miłosz’s Self-presentation in English-Speaking Countries
I. THE CONTEXT AND GENERAL CHARACTER OF MILOSZ'S SELF-PRESENTATION Czeslaw Milosz received the highest recognition available a contemporary writer, the Nobel Prize for literature, thirty years after his defection from communist Poland, and despite the sustained official ban on publication of his work in his native country. During those years, most of which he spent in the United States as a professor of Polish and Russian literatures at Berkeley,…
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Czesław Miłosz’s Self-presentation in English-Speaking Countries
I. THE CONTEXT AND GENERAL CHARACTER OF MILOSZ'S SELF-PRESENTATION Czeslaw Milosz received the highest recognition available a contemporary writer, the Nobel Prize for literature, thirty years after his defection from communist Poland, and despite the sustained official ban on publication of his work in his native country. During those years, most of which he spent in the United States as a professor of Polish and Russian literatures at Berkeley,…
The Female Persona in Wisława Szymborska’s Poems
Wisława Szymborska’s poetry (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1996) has gained wide acclaim not only in her native Poland but also abroad, including the English-speaking countries, where translations of her work have appeared both in book form and in numerous periodicals. Yet the critical response has been largely disappointing. This may be due to the fact that Szymborska’s poetry transcends both patriarchal and feminist categories. It creates models …
Exile in Postwar Polish Women’s Prose
The article deals with the lives of postwar Polish emigration as portrayed in literary works by Polish émigré women writers. It begins with the “domestic” theme whose prominence in the works in question can be at least partly explained by the fact that in Poland, for historical and political reasons, the public and private spheres had acquired a different character than in the West. The blurring of the line separating the two spaces and the image…
Kultura chłopska w optyce prasy społeczno-kulturalnej lat 1944-1948. „Warszawa” i dyskusje nad modelem kultury powojennej Polski
Artykul opisuje powojenne proby stworzenia modelu kultury PRL-u w oparciu o wartości literatury ludowej. Promując kulture i literature chlopską jako atlernatywną dla politycznie promowanej kultury opartej na wartościach i osiągnieciach klasy robotniczej, publicyści skupieni wokol czasopisma „Warszawa” jednocześnie utrudnili zbadanie i opisanie sytuacji wsi i jej mieszkancow w okresie okupacji niemieckiej, a szczegolnie stosunku chlopow do ukrywaj…
Z perspektywy Zachodniej Kanady o akademickich programach języka i literatury polskiej
Tematem artykułu jest sytuacja kursów języka i literatury polskiej na uniwersytetach w Ameryce Połnocnej. Zmniejszająca się liczba studentów zainteresowanych zajęciami z kultury polskiej, będąca wynikiem wielu czynników, prowadzi do ograniczania kursów. Sytuacji nie pomaga łączenie wydziałów slawistycznych z germanistycznymi. W ostatnich latach wzrasta natomiast zainteresowanie tematyką polsko-żydowską, co może pomóc w rozwinięciu np. lektoratów …
Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures
Marta
Olga Tokarczuk’s “Écriture féminine
This article discusses Olga Tokarczuk as a novelist who has developed a unique literary style, an inimitable blend of visual and verbal elements. Referencing her novels (and bearing in mind the order of their development in relation to the development of the authorial techniques), the author discusses how Tokarczuk challenges the traditional communication model as well as traditional ways of looking at the process of creation. Utilizing observati…
Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction
[Editor's note: In The Polish Review 66, no. 1 (2021), Angela Pienkos reviewed Grażyna Kozaczka's book within the methodological framework of ethnic studies. Bożena Karwowska's review, in contrast, combines an ethnic studies approach with a focus on gender and literary analysis.]Contemporary societies, especially those built on conquered lands by various groups and waves of immigrants, have been searching not only for their own national identitie…
Wiek teorii
It is a well-known fact that literary theory is not just a static set of categories used to analyze and discuss literary texts, but an academic field with approaches and categories that are constantly changing. Each theory is connected with a specific time in history, and—to a large degree—also with international cultural centers and literary developments of their respective times. There is still, however, not enough work done to recognize that n…
Edukacja jako narzędzie sprawowania władzy
This article discusses the role of education in the creation of modern society. Drawing upon her observations on the situation of indigenous peoples in Canada and the colonisation processes carried out through education, such as depicted in Joanna Gierak-Onoszko’s reportage 27 śmierci Toby’ego Obeda [The 27 deaths of Toby Obed], the author analyses Natalia Rolleczek’s Drewniany różaniec [The wooden rosary] and Alicja Iwańska’s Baśń amerykańska [T…
Narracje krajobrazu. Rampa w Auschwitz
This article addresses the impact of museum activities and the politics of remembrance and commemoration on the transformation of Holocaust landscapes. These landscapes, fixed in literary texts in a particular moment and a specific form, have undergone many transformations over the decades and have been affected by various, often politically motivated, processes. As the author proves, it would appear that these transformations do not necessarily …
Non omnis moriar
The Books of Jacob [Księgi Jakubowe]
In today's world, where the majority of people have a reading attention span limited to what fits the screen of their smartphone, presenting a novel of nearly 1,000 pages might seem surprising, to say the least. Moreover, with digital versions of books gaining an ever larger share of the publishing market, a novel that, because of its graphic elements, best reads as a printed version, rather seems to ignore the realities of the contemporary reade…
Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories
Tadeusz Borowski is arguably the best-known Polish writer among English-language audiences, though his literary works are not studied in English-speaking countries as part of Polish literature. His fame is due, in large part, not to his contribution to the literature of Eastern Europe, but to the knowledge of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Borowski's short stories are, in fact, commonly compared to the autobiographical works of Primo Levi and Elie …
Wielka podróż zwykłych ludzi [The great journey of ordinary people]
One of the results of Polish academics embracing postcolonial approaches is the growing interest in the changes within the social structures and relations between various groups of people in postwar Poland. In addition, the political changes at the end of the last millennium allow researchers to re-examine Polish history, especially regarding the twentieth century. As part of the Soviet Bloc (roughly between 1949 and 1989), the Polish postwar reg…
If This Is a Woman
For Holocaust scholars who are conversant with feminist and gender approaches it is quite obvious that while interest in women and female perspectives is steadily growing, there are still not enough publications and research in the area. Quite often, gender-oriented research on the Holocaust is seen as the domain of women scholars, and, as such, it is relegated to the margins. This is especially true in the case of Eastern Europe, with the recent…
Poesis in Extremis
Art (11 works) · Central European Literary Studies (9 works) · Literature (8 works) · History (6 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (6 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (6 works) · Language and Culture (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)