Women’s Meetings with Iceland: Prolegomena

In this article the author examines the way women are presented in travel accounts about Iceland written by men (e.g. Daniel Vetter, Edmund Chojecki and Ferdynand Goetel) and explores women’s writing about Iceland in Polish literature. This topic has not been studied academically so far. The article...

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Main Author: Rott, Dariusz
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Polish
Published: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego 2021
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.31261/https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2021.27.14
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Summary:In this article the author examines the way women are presented in travel accounts about Iceland written by men (e.g. Daniel Vetter, Edmund Chojecki and Ferdynand Goetel) and explores women’s writing about Iceland in Polish literature. This topic has not been studied academically so far. The article presents a chronological and synthetic review of primary sources. Selected feminist literary criticism is used to take stock of the material. Depictions of the female experience and the poetics of female writing about Iceland appeared in the creative practice of Polish authors as late as 1977 (the first women’s account was by Halina Ogrodzińska), only to develop considerably (both quantitatively and qualitatively) in recent years in numerous travel books by Magdalena Anna Węcławiak and Agnieszka Rezler, among others, or a project on the borderline between visual arts and artist’s book by Sonia Rammer. This review shows that the practice of women’s writing about Iceland has developed in recent years and requires detailed analysis and interpretation. This will undoubtedly open new research perspectives entering also into other intersemiotic areas: photography, music (Hania Rani and her album Esja) or visual arts (Magdalena Armanda Kołakowska and Sonia Rammer). W artykule autor podejmuje tematykę sposobu przedstawiania kobiet w relacjach podróżniczych o Islandii, których autorami są mężczyźni (m.in. Daniel Vetter, Edmund Chojecki i Ferdynand Goetel), a także kobiecego pisania o Islandii w piśmiennictwie polskim. Zagadnienie to nie było w ogóle podejmowane w dotychczasowej refleksji naukowej. Dokonano chronologicznego i syntetycznego przeglądu oraz zinwentaryzowania literatury podmiotowej z wykorzystaniem elementów feministycznej krytyki literackiej. Wypowiedzi przestawiające kobiece doświadczenie i poetykę kobiecego pisania o Islandii pojawiają się w praktyce twórczej polskich autorów dopiero w 1977 roku (pierwsza kobieca relacja autorstwa Haliny Ogrodzińskiej), by w ostatnich latach znacznie się rozwinąć (ilościowo i ...