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Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 14 (2024)

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 14 (2024)

Małgorzata Hołda, Ramsey Eric Ramsey

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Issue 14 (2024) of Text Matters centers on the intertwined concepts of dwelling and belonging, exploring their complexities and dimensions within literature and culture. The editors, Małgorzata Hołda and Ramsey Eric Ramsey, introduce these themes as fundamental to the human experience of being-in-the-world, encompassing a vast array of human concerns and historical situatedness. The nineteen essays, grouped in five broad sections, examine topics as varied as disputes between Arendt and Heidegger, the intertwined nature of "belonging and longing" in the philosophies of Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion, the intricate relationships between dwelling and identity, particularly within urban and environmentally stressed contexts, the retrieval of memories and the redefinition of personal identity in relation to urban space and altered surroundings, dwelling in urban and environmentally endangered areas, the entanglement of urban subjectivity with non-human elements, and seeking models of collective memory and dwelling that move beyond anthropocentric concepts. The main section also covers various modes of belonging, including the concept of home for digital objects and their interactions within online environments, regional identity in poetry, the experience of hate crime and reclaiming belonging, and the use of art and literature to analyze memory, absence, and socio-political critique. What follows is the "(More-Than-Human) Intersections, (More-Than-Generic) Liminalities" section that gathers seven scholarly texts discussing the representation of animal revolts in literature, transgression(s) in Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country, depiction of post-apartheid white identity in Die Antwoord's music videos, the horror elements in Robert Eggers's The Lighthouse, the ecocritical reading of Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders, the concepts of disnarration and denarration in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, and innovation in the poetry by Charles Bernstein and Andrzej Sosnowski.

DWELLING AND BELONGING

Małgorzata Hołda (University of Lodz) and Ramsey Eric Ramsey (Arizona State University)

The Challenge and Gift of Being-in-the-World: The Hermeneutics of Dwelling and (Be)longing

 

The Human Self and the Philosophy of Dwelling

Adi Burton (Independent Scholar) and Barbara Weber (University of British Columbia)

Dwelling and Departure: Beginning Disputes between Arendt and Heidegger

 

Szczepan Urbaniak (Ignatianum University in Cracow)

Belonging and Longing: The Question of the Subject in Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion

 

Memory, Grieving, and Homecoming

Małgorzata Rutkowska (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin)

Back in the Old Country: Homecoming and Belonging in Leonard Kniffel’s A Polish Son in the Motherland: An American’s Journey Home and Kapka Kassabova’s To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace

 

Katarzyna A. Małecka (University of Lodz)

“This house is so lonely!”: Home, Belonging, and Identity in Memoirs of Loss and Grief

 

Agnieszka Łowczanin (University of Lodz)

Cathartic Paths of the Gothic in Ciemno, prawie noc by Joanna Bator

 

Simge Yılmaz (Justus Liebig University Giessen)

Filling the Gaps in Broken Memory while Renewing the Cityscape: Navigating Belonging in Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman

 

The Anthropocene, Urban Habitations, and the Digital Landscape

Satarupa Sinha Roy (Dewan Abdul Gani College, India)

Dwelling in the Urban Liminal: A Phenomenological Consideration of Saul Leiter’s Street Photography

 

Małgorzata Sugiera (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)

Cities and Their People: Dwelling in the Anthropic Time of N. K. Jemisin’s New York

 

Mateusz Borowski (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)

How to Dwell in Garbage Patches? Waste Communities in the Aftermath of Ancestral Catastrophe in Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide (2013) and Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes (2011)

 

Mateusz Chaberski (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)

Building Liveable Futures: Dwelling as Collaborative Survival After Climate Change

 

Katarzyna Ostalska (University of Lodz)

Nine Billion Branches: A Digital Poem by Jason Nelson—the Home of Objects

 

The Phantasmagoric and the Real Home: Between Utopia and Materiality

Elise Poll (Arizona State University)

Breaking the Promise of Perfection: Imperfect Utopias in Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time

 

Jordan Huston (Loyola University Chicago)

Radiant Futures: Utopian Art as a Phenomenology of Home-Seeking

 

Lucie Kotesovska (University of Victoria)

The Regional Impersonal as a Mode of Dwelling: Structures of Embodiment in David Jones’s The Anathémata and Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts

 

Sanghamitra Dalal (College of Creative Arts, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia)

Longing to Belong in One’s Own Homeland: Tracing the Topophilic Cartography in Anita Sethi’s I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain

 

Imaginary, Haunted, and Aesthetic Dwellings

Kamila Drapało (University of Bialystok)

Imagination and Dwelling in The House that Jack Built

 

Carlos Gutiérrez Cajaraville (University of Valladolid) and Ana Calonge Conde (University of Valladolid)

Silent Voices: Dwelling with our Specters through Palimpsesto (2017), by Doris Salcedo

 

Adam J. Goldsmith (Northwestern University, USA)

“If I Could but See a Day of it”: On the Aesthetic Potential for Belonging and Action

 

Małgorzata Hołda (University of Lodz)

“I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window”: The Hermeneutical Aesthetics of (Be)longing

 

(MORE-THAN-HUMAN) INTERSECTIONS, (MORE-THAN-GENERIC) LIMINALITIES

Thomas Aiello (Valdosta State University)

The Meaning of Animals in the First Farm Revolts: From Kostomarov’s Ukraine to Reymont’s Poland at the Turn of the 20th Century

 

Ewa Wiśniewska (Academy of Piotrkow Trybunalski)

A Study of Transgressed Boundaries in The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper

 

Tomasz Dobrogoszcz (University of Lodz)

From Kitsch and Carnivalesque to Cultural Appropriations: Liminal Representations of Post-Apartheid White Identity in Die Antwoord’s Music Videos

 

Maciej Morawiec (Independent Scholar)

Voices of the Dead: Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse and the Horror Genre

 

Zofia Pigoń (University of Wrocław)

Unearthly Nature: The Strangeness of Arbospaces in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders

 

Hossein Pirnajmuddin (University of Isfahan) and Maryamossadat Mousavi (University of Isfahan)

The Disnarrated and Denarrated in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh

 

Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)

International Language Poetry: Radical Poetics in Charles Bernstein and Andrzej Sosnowski

  • Title: Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 14 (2024)
  • Author: Małgorzata Hołda, Ramsey Eric Ramsey
  • ISBN: 2084-574X, 2084574X
  • Date of issue: 2024-11-28
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_4gx2
  • Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego