Halina Filipowicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 706708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Halina Filipowicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Halina |
| FAMILY NAME | Filipowicz |
| SIGNATURE | FILIPOWICZ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Books Briefly
Hal Elliott Wert, Hoover vs. Roosevelt: Two Presidents’ Battle Over Feeding Europe and Going to War (Essex, UK: Stackpole Books, 2023), xviii + 452 pp., bibliography, index, images. ISBN 978-08-117-3972-6 (hbk).Many of this journal's readers are likely to be at least somewhat familiar with President Herbert Hoover's humanitarian efforts throughout his life, including those in Poland after Versailles, and for Poles during World War II. Hal Elliott…
Does a University Have a Gender
At conferences, I would sometimes be approached by scholars I did not know. Some of them were women. They told me that the work of feminism is done and that women today are free. “Look,” they said, “women can walk the corridors of power and enter the courts of judgment.” They also told me that their students regard feminism as an outmoded political position. Then they wandered away. Sometimes, though, scholars came over to tell me that they suppo…
When Poetry Is Not Enough
Controversy has come to be a predictable feature of Holocaust studies. It is hardly surprising, then, that a process of constructing a transnational canon of Holocaust drama, slowly unfolding in critical commentary since the premieres of Rolf Hochhuth's Der Stellvertreter [The deputy] and Peter Weiss's Die Ermittlung [The investigation] in the 1960s, has been fraught with accusations that this questionable project is as much about forgetting as a…
Trespassing through Silences
In critical commentary, Czarny piasek [Black sand, 1959], Andrzej Bobkowski's only play, is surrounded by a sense of unease. Read through the lens of his other writings, it is decried as an offshoot of the blinkered ideas he propounded elsewhere. My approach, in contrast, is that of a drama scholar. I propose to read Black Sand as a play in its own right and to examine its tangled skein of dramaturgical and rhetorical strategies. Part a psycholog…
Prowokatorka
Every age has its own Maria Dąbrowska. The interwar period revered her for Noce i dnie [Nights and days, 1931–1934], an expansive novel that draws on the conventions of the family saga to anatomize social change in the politically stalled world of post-1863 Poland, while also exploring inward psychological dramas of a group of characters struggling with a trifecta of trauma, fury, and guilt. It was one of those works that become an old favorite w…
Rough Notations? The Puzzle of Janusz Korczak’s Ghetto Journal
Janusz Korczak’s last, unfinished book, written in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, is known under a rather misleading title, Pamiętnik, rendered as Diary or Memoir in English. Long considered a collection of rough diaristic notations and confessional scribblings, it is valued as a testimonial document but denied, often enough, any artistic ambition. Some commentators go so far as to suggest that by 1942 Korczak, sixty-three or sixty-four at the time, …
Pani Stefa
Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction
Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema
Thirty-Nine Divided by Forty-Five
Review Article| April 01 2019 Thirty-Nine Divided by Forty-Five: Rereading Herminia Naglerowa Anna Wal, Wierna życiu i literaturze: O pisarstwie Herminii Naglerowej [Faithful to Life and Literature: On the Works of Herminia Naglerowa], (Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2014), 312 pp., bibliography, index of names, summary in English. ISBN 978–83-7996-040-8. Halina Filipowicz Halina Filipowicz University of Wisconsin-Madison Halina…
Selected Drama and Verse
Selected Drama and Verse. Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa. Ed. Patrick John Corness and Barbara Judkowiak. Trans. Patrick John Corness. Translation ed. Aldona Zwierzyńska-Coldicott. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 37; Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 478. Toronto: Iter Academic Press; Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015. xvi + 396 pp. $45.95. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Rediscovering Zofia Nałkowska
Research Article| December 01 2016 Rediscovering Zofia Nałkowska Hanna Kirchner, Nałkowska albo życie pisane [Nałkowska, or Life-in-Writing], 2nd ed. (Warsaw: Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, 2015), 896 pp. ISBN 978-83-280-2041-2.Zofia Nałkowska, The Romance of Teresa Hennert [Romans Teresy Hennert], translated by Megan Thomas and Ewa Małachowska-Pasek, with a foreword by Benjamin Paloff (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2014). xx, 168 pp. ISB…
European Cultural Memory Post-89
Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory
Book Review| April 01 2014 Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory Urszula Chowaniec and Ursula Phillips, eds., Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012). viii, 255 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4438-4187-0. Halina Filipowicz Halina Filipowicz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2014) 59 (1): 107–109. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.…
Am I That Name?” Feminism, Feminist Criticism, and Gender Studies
This article takes up three overlapping sets of issues. The first set brings into sharper relief current debates about work–family balance and persistent gender inequality. The second set traces the emergence of women’s studies as a scholarly discipline, examines a shift from women’s studies to gender studies, and considers the reception of Western feminist discourse in Poland. The final set builds on the first two by addressing assumptions about…
School for Patriots? The Foundational Dramas of the American and Polish Revolutions Revisited
At a time when the exclusionist rhetoric of the nation continues to be dressed up as patriotic conviction, this article advocates a return to the archive to investigate the controversial issue of patriotism. It might be surprising to find, for example, that The Patriot’s Calendar, published in London in the 1790s, contained both Magna Carta and the Marseillaise. Accordingly, the connections between patriotism and liberty and patriotism and citize…
Re-Envisioning Solidarity
This essay examines the cultural work performed by Lech Wałȩsa's outdoor extravaganza that was staged in a rural area near Kraków on 14 May 1989, at a liminal moment between the waning of communist rule and the rise of a democratic polity in Poland. By "cultural work" is meant the ways in which performance functions not only as a mode of public (self-)presentation, but also as a venue through which performers can attempt to intervene in the histo…
What Good Are Polish Literary Studies in the United States
Performing Bodies, Performing Mickiewicz
Textualizing Trauma
Textualizing Trauma: From Valesa to Kosciuszko in Polish Theatre of the 1980s Halina Filipowicz (bio) Coping with the trauma of defeat was the most pressing obligation of Polish cultural mythology in the wake of the military coup of 13 December 1981. Less than two years earlier, Solidarity embarked on an ambitious program of political reforms. 1 The process of democratization came to a stop when the military regime declared Solidarity illegal and…
Demythologizing Polish Theatre
Five years ago, in June 1989, Solidarity won a spectacular victory in a parliamentary election. The Polish Communist Party was forced to give up its monopoly on power. Poles embarked on an arduous, often haphazard process of transformation from a party-state and central planning to a democratic polity and capitalism. What does this transformation mean for Polish theatre? In the new Polish experience, which opens dizzying possibilities to some peo…
A Laboratory of Impure Forms
Polish Theatre after Solidarity
Polish theatre thrived on subversion. Of course, there is a danger of retrospective idealization or sentimental overstatement. But the fact remains that the theatre in Poland had boundless capacity for challenging established aesthetic norms as well as the repressive political order. In the I98os, Solidarity launched Poland on the road to democracy. And unsettling though this thought may be to many readers of this journal, the final outcome of So…
A Laboratory of Impure Forms
Grotowski Blazes the Trails
The past 21 years constitute a period longer than Grotowski's entire work in the theatre, even if we add his training as actor and director. He spent I8 years in the theatre, including 1 years (1957-1968) as a director. We must take note of these facts to avoid misunderstanding. Grotowski's work since 1985 represents the closure of a 30-year creative journey-the achievement and crowning of a lifetime. This is the fourth period of his work. The fi…
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A Life of Solitude. Stanislawa Przybyszewska
A Life of Solitude is a biography of Polish playwright Stanislawa Przybyszewska (1901-35). One of the finest plays about the French Revolution, The Danton Case, was written by this unknown Polish woman living in obscurity in the free city of Danzig. The illegitimate daughter of writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski, she became a writer against long odds and at the cost of her health, her sanity, and eventually her life. A Life of Solitude shows how she …
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Grotowski Blazes the Trails
The past 21 years constitute a period longer than Grotowski's entire work in the theatre, even if we add his training as actor and director. He spent I8 years in the theatre, including 1 years (1957-1968) as a director. We must take note of these facts to avoid misunderstanding. Grotowski's work since 1985 represents the closure of a 30-year creative journey-the achievement and crowning of a lifetime. This is the fourth period of his work. The fi…
"Where Is "Gurutowski
Four years ago, Kazimierz Braun, a distinguished Polish director, confronted his readers in Poland and the United States with a question of peculiar and profound intensity: Where is Grotowski? (1986, I986a). It was not impossible to view Braun's essay as a planned provocation that disparaged Grotowski (see Burzynski 1989). Braun presented him, or so the argument went, as a has-been who left no trace in the collective cultural memory or the curren…
Polish Theatre after Solidarity
Polish theatre thrived on subversion. Of course, there is a danger of retrospective idealization or sentimental overstatement. But the fact remains that the theatre in Poland had boundless capacity for challenging established aesthetic norms as well as the repressive political order. In the I98os, Solidarity launched Poland on the road to democracy. And unsettling though this thought may be to many readers of this journal, the final outcome of So…
A Laboratory of Impure Forms
A Laboratory of Impure Forms
Demythologizing Polish Theatre
Five years ago, in June 1989, Solidarity won a spectacular victory in a parliamentary election. The Polish Communist Party was forced to give up its monopoly on power. Poles embarked on an arduous, often haphazard process of transformation from a party-state and central planning to a democratic polity and capitalism. What does this transformation mean for Polish theatre? In the new Polish experience, which opens dizzying possibilities to some peo…
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