Reader for the Polish Women's Writing Course (Helsinki 2012)

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READER

WOMEN’S WRITING IN POLAND 1989-2010
(Contemporary Polish Literary History)
by dr Urszula Chowaniec

Table of Contents:
1. PART I Recognitions:
Poland and Europe
Molyneux, Maxine. 1995. “Gendered Transitions in Eastern Europe.” Feminist Studies 21(3):637-46.
Watson, Peggy. 1997. “Anti-feminism After Communism”. In Who’s Afraid of Feminism, edited by Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell, 144-161. New York: The New Press.

Olga Tokarczuk:
Adelgeym, Irina. 2008. “Death as the Mask of Life in Women’s Reflections: Olga Tokarczuk’s Final Stories and Anna in the Tombs of the World.” In Masquerade and Femininity: Essays on Polish and Russian Women Writers, edited by Urszula Chowaniec, Ursula Phillips, and Marja Rytkönen, 185-98. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 2003. House of Day, House of Night, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
—. 2006. “From E.E.”, translated by John Woodsworth. In The Third Shore: Women’s Fiction from East Central Europe, edited by Agata Schwartz and Luise von Flotow, 164-9. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Polish Literaure&Culture:
Czermińska, Małgorzata. 2001. “Women Writers in Polish Literature, 1945-95: From ‘Equal Rights for Women’ to Feminist Self-Awareness,” translated by Jean Ward. In A History of Central European Women’s Writing, edited by Celia Hawkesworth, 220-39. London: Palgrave.

Jerzy Jarzębski and Karen Underhill. 2000. The Decade in Prose, "Chicago Review", Vol. 46, No. 3/4, New Polish Writing, pp. 344-356.

Graff, Agnieszka.2003. “Lost between the Waves? The Paradoxes of Feminist Chronology and Activism in Contemporary Poland”, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol 4 no 2 April 2003.

2. PART II Analyses:

1. Women 20 years later: Maria Janion’s 2009 speech
2. Menstruation in Literature: Izabela Filipiak, Olga Tokarczuk (Urszula Chowaniec’s article)
3. Émigré literature after 1989 (Urszula Chowaniec’s article)

3. PART III Other Fragments for Discussions:

Chutnik Sylwia
Filipiak Izabela
Gretkowska Manuela
Iwasiów Inga

4. Additional texts:

Izabela Filipiak, My Life as a Rabbit http://womenswriting.fi/files/2011/07/wwol-nro-22.pdf
Grażyna Borkowska, Polish Women Writers http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,81,37.php
Interview with Olga Tokarczuk on Bieguni ('Runners') NIKE prizewinner• Interview with Olga Tokarczuk http://www.polishwriting.net/index.php?id=129