A Poetics of Borderlands - A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by Contemporary US Latina/Chicana and Polish Women Writers

The book explores the notion of borderlands and the concept of nomadic subjectivity as manifested in selected novels by Chicana/Latina and contemporary Polish women authors. It seeks to propose a poetics of borderlands that emerges from the condition of nepantla (being torn, not belonging anywhere). Language, collective identities and motherhood are the main issues under scrutiny. Application of feminist literary criticism, postcolonial criticism and comparative literature studies in examination of literary works reveals interesting parallels between works of authors that have little in common at first glance. One of the book objectives is to draw attention to contemporary Polish writers, whose oeuvre is not widely researched in the mainstream literary studies.

List of contents

Introduction. The Concept of Borderlands - Chapter 1. Language of the Borderlands - Chapter 2. National Identity, Race, and Class - Chapter 3. Borderland Motherhoods - Chapter 4. Nomadic Subjectivity in Borderland Poetics

About the author

Aleksandra Höubowicz does research in the field of literary studies, specializing in contemporary American literature and border studies. She earned her PhD at Gdan¿sk University and is currently employed at Charles University in the Czech Republic.

Product details

• Authors: Aleksandra Ho¿ubowicz, Aleksandra Holubowicz
• Assisted by: Marek Wilczynski (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9783631892329
• ISBN: 978-3-631-89232-9
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 16 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 349 g
• Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics