1. W LUDZKIM I W NIE-LUDZKIM ŚWIECIE. (PO)NOWOCZESNE SPOŁECZEŃSTWO A PŁEĆ ŻEŃSKA W MRÓWKACH MARII PAWLIKOWSKIEJ-JASNORZEWSKIEJ.
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BANOT, ALEKSANDRA
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ANT communities ,ARTISTIC influence ,ANTS ,INDUSTRIALIZATION ,FABLES ,ANT behavior - Abstract
Mrówki. Sztuka w trzech aktach (Ants. A Play in Three Acts) by Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (premiered in 1936) juxtaposes two worlds: the animal world, the community of ants, and the human world, the family as a social unit. In both worlds dramas play out with female individuals at their centre, who are in love and who refuse to perceive love as nothing more than a tool subjugated to biological reproduction. In the present article I will be mostly interested in following and attempting to reconstruct such quasi-oppositions as: ants – humans, society – individual, female – male, sexual act – love, reproduction – production, life – death, zoe – bios. I will also set out to consider how Ants are situated in relation to literary traditions of therianthropy and animal fables – is the image of the anthill embedded in an anthropocentric perspective or whether it may be inscribed in the posthumanist discourse. Finally, I will look at the “anthill civilisation” – the society of the early 20
th century, struggling with urbanisation, industrialisation, technicisation, but also developing totalitarian tendencies. This problem, though frequently taken up by critics and scholars, appears still to be current today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2020
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