Topos kobiet w „Toposie”

Abstract

The aim of this article is an attempt to find an answer to the question whether the bimonthly literary magazine “Topos” is a topos, understood as a joint place, for women who write prose, poetry or engage in literary criticism. I seek an answer to the above question by analysing the content of selected issues of the literary bimonthly “Topos”, its articles, publications published in the magazine, and volumes of poetry published in the series Library of poetry/Topos Library. I quote excerpts from the articles and give the results of the analysis of the book reviews in order to look for the answer to the question who?, about whom? and why do they write? The vast majority of the publications included in the analysed issues of the magazine are authored by men. The ratio of the number of poetry volumes authored by men to the number of poetry volumes authored by women is about 8:1. The analysis shows that “Topos” is male. There is no common place for women in it and there is no community of women poets publishing in the magazine. The results of this analysis may be a motivation for deeper and more extensive research related to the definition of the male world order and its stereotypes functioning in the 21st century.