http://hdl.handle.net/11320/14179 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:37:38 GMT 2026-06-20T04:37:38Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/14192 Tytuł: Making things happen: Literature as a means of dismantling silence, shame, and stigma [Review of #MeToo and Literary Studies. Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, edited by Mary K. Holland and Heather Hewett, Bloomsbury 2021, 415 pp.] Autorzy: Partyka, Jacek Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/14192 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/14191 Tytuł: Missing is not a destination: Bringing the indigenous woman home in MMIW literature Autorzy: Martínez-Falquina, Silvia Abstrakt: This article underscores the relevance of literature within the current Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman movement, which denounces the high rates of violence suffered by Indigenous women in Canada and the USA. As I argue, MMIW literature is a particularly useful form of activism because it makes the problem more visible as it offers a diversity of images that challenge the settler colonial silencing, dehumanizing and pathologizing of the Indigenous woman. Literary texts examine the multiple layers of the MMIW issue and its settler colonial sexist/racist roots, and simultaneously search for an emotional response that boosts engagement. The article offers a contextualization of literature within the MMIW movement in connection to activism, it reflects on the challenges of approaching the issue from a non-Indigenous perspective, and it engages in a close reading of works by Tanaya Winder and Linda LeGarde Grover to illustrate the most significant features of MMIW poetry and fiction. Both authors challenge the Western narrative of survivorism, moving beyond the passive or guilty victim roles in settler colonial representations, and positing relationality as a key value to refute the silencing and invisibility of Indigenous women. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/14191 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/14190 Tytuł: Street art and protest under pandemic conditions in Colombia: A visual semiotic approach Autorzy: Blandón Gómez, Hernando Abstrakt: This article engages in a visual critical semiotic analysis of Medellín street art and its interpretation as political action in the Colombian social mobilisation of 2021. I explore three epistemological turns towards a descriptive and contrastive methodology to contextualize street art and its transformative potential. Firstly, the spatial turn leads us to understand how space and street art function as a framework of life and conflict that challenges viewers socially and politically. Secondly, following Peirceʼs ideas, I reinter preted some images. I explain how they function as theoretical objects related to indices, signs and symbols. According to Mitchell's image turn, the image functions as a significant semantic unit. Thirdly, I read the political turn based on Rancièreʼs works in which he equates the political and the aesthetic as an act of visibility, always existing together at a conceptual and substantive level, and with which emancipation is objective. The article does not try to argue whether street art has a transformative power as this has been widely discussed in the literature. The article looks at street art that appeared in the context of the social mobilisation of 2021-2022, and partially in the context of the recent pandemic as a social transformation, the fact of which was proven by the recent elections. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/14190 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/14187 Tytuł: Promethean struggle: Shelley, Keats, and Norwid in search of rescue in the risky world Autorzy: Niemirycz, Aleksandra Abstrakt: The myth of Prometheus sacrificing his freedom to give men authority over a powerful element of nature despite the will of the gods has, in modern times, inspired authors of different languages who kept transforming it according to their views. Both Western and Polish poets of Romanticism favoured the Promethean idea. In their Promethean – or Messianic – visions Mickiewicz and Słowacki emphasized the importance of armed or spiritual struggle for Polandʼs independence against Tsarist Russia, while English language poets praised the individualʼs rebellion in the face of the oppressive society. Cyprian Norwidʼs interpretation of the myth combined the individual and the collective. He saw Prometheus as a craftsman whose gift, fire – ʻteacher of all artsʼ - is a tool for ultimate salvation through Beauty incorporated in mas terpieces. Norwidʼs philosophy is profoundly rooted in Christian soteriology. According to the poet, the revival of both his nation and of the individual is possible only through arduous work, through creative effort understood as cooperation with Christ the saviour in the attainment of salvation leading to both individual and national resurrection. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/14187 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z