Metafora pralni. Zofii Chądzyńskiej czytanie, pisanie, tłumaczenie
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2014
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Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne i Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk
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The laundry metaphor. Zofia Chądzyńska’s reading, writing, and translation
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The essay is devoted to the life and work of Zofia Chądzyńska, with special
focus on three manifestation of her intellectual activity: reading,
writing, and translation, and their linguistic relations. The complicated
post-war vicissitudes forced the writer to frequent changes in her way
of life, and required an effort to adapt to the new reality. Chądzyńska
did different jobs, and often changed her place of residence. The point of
departure for the present discussion is her work at white-wash laundry
in Buenos Aires. The laundry serves as a metaphor for moving from one
linguistic space to another, and both spaces seem to be rigidly isolated
from one another for Chądzyńska.
The essay also refers to James Clifford’s On Ethnographic Self- Fashioning:
Conrad and Malinowski. The anthropologist claims that each sphere of
life is allotted to a different language: native, transgressive, and the language
of restraint. The languages of both authors discussed by Clifford
entered into various interferences, however, or replaced one another and
created new connections. In Chądzyńska, it is definitely more difficult
to see such relations, and her strong self-fashioning techniques reinforce
the impression of radical transit from one language sphere to another.
The author’s autobiography and her numerous autobiographical acts of
expression also provide evidence for research in translation work, which
in Chądzyńska can be analysed, for example, in the feminist context.
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Zofia Chądzyńska, Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch, women’s translations, women’s studies
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Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2014, nr 23 (43), s. 227-237
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1233-8680