Contents

Intoduction – Michał Krzykawski: Beyond the Paternal Malaise: Reinventing the Symbolic / 13

The Prominence of the Paternal Instance and Beyond

Agata Bielik-Robson: Religion of the Father? Judaism, Anti‑Judaism, and the Family Romance / 25

Anna Malinowska: Paternal Structures of the Romance / 40

Anna Kisiel: Dis‑obedience to the Father. Bracha L. Ettinger’s Theory and Installation Confronted with Freud and Lacan / 53

Michał Kisiel: “White World, Not a Sound.” Paternal Spaces in Samuel Beckett’s Embers / 64

Magdalena Łachacz: “Doctor doctor, please, oh, the mess I’m in”: The Father and the Father Figure As an Identifying Sign of a Nazi Son in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones / 75

Pierre Vialle: Legacy of Name / Heritage of Art: Giulia Andreani’s Daddy #3 / 87

The Returns of the Father and the Stories of/about Fathers

Renata Jakubczuk: Quiet Revolution: the Evolution of the Image of the Father in the Quebec Theater / 97

Maria Falska: The Theater of Carlos Arniches and the Figure of the Father / 110

Anna Natkańska: Incapable Fathers In Italian Literature by Women (Cardella, Ginzburg) / 121

Serigne Seye: Between the Biological Father and the Spiritual Father: The Choice of the Break on the Example of Characters of Boubacar Boris Diop / 129

Pierre Suzanne Eyenga Onana: In the Name of the Father, Against Him and Beyond Him. Pabe Mongo’s Père inconnu or the Odyssey of a Bastard Seeking Fatherly Affection / 140

Cecilia Lopez Badano, Monserrat Acuna Murillo: Traditional and Disruptive Images of the Father in Latin American Contemporary Fictional Texts / 150

Anna Maziarczyk: The Contemporary Rhetoric of Paternity: The Case of Chevillard / 161

Sylwia Frach: Symbolic Filiation: The Denial of Parental Authority in Oedipus Rex by Pier

Paolo Pasolini / 173

Anca Porumb: The Rejected Father and the Rejecting Father in Hervé Guibert and Yves

Navarre’s Novels / 182

Barbara Kornacka: Homosexual Paternity and Androcentric Culture. Sei come sei by Melania G. Mazzucco / 192

Fathers and Daughters. Difficult Renewals

Katarzyna Kotowska: Reconstruction of the Father in the Works of Annie Ernaux (A Man’s Place) and Assia Djebar (Nowhere in My Father’s House) / 205

Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald: Bio‑graphies. From Annie Ernaux Father’s Portrait to Writing A Man’s Place / 217

Anna Ledwina: Father and Daughter – Father’s “Mark” in the Prose of Colette and Beauvoir / 226

Laurence Gouaux-Rabasa: Father and Daughter: A Recovered Link in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams / 236

Valerie Hastings: The Crime of Count Neville or the Family Romance of a Neurotic Writer / 247

On Translation

Barbara Brzezicka: Jacques Derrida: Untranslatable or Badly Translated? / 259

Ewa Łukaszyk: A Translation That Makes a Manifesto. Art poétique by Verlaine and Sztuka poetycka by Miriam / 270

Book Reviews

Kathleen Gyssels, “Black‑Label ou les déboires de Léon‑Gontran Damas”, Caen, Ed. Passage(s), 2016, 298 p., ISBN 979‑10‑94898‑01‑7 (Alessia Vignoli) / 281

Susanne Gehrmann, Dotsé Yigbe (Éds.), “Créativité intermédiatique au Togo et dans la diaspora togolaise”, Berlin, LIT Verlag, coll.“Frankophone Literaturen und Kulturen außerhalb Europas / Littératures et cultures francophones hors d’Europe”, Bd. 9, 2015, 312 p., ISBN 978‑3‑643‑13133‑1 (Sara Del Rossi) / 285

• Title: "Romanica Silesiana" 2017, No 12: Le pere / The Father
• Author: red. Michał Krzykawski
• ISBN: 2353-9887, 23539887
• Date of issue: 2017-12-13
• Format: Ebook
• Item ID: e_0p8z
• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego