Kobiece spotkania z Islandią. Prolegomena

• Published in: Postscriptum polonistyczne Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 249 - 264
• Main Author: Rott, Dariusz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Polish
• Published: University of Silesia Press 30.06.2021; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Subjects: Language and Literature Studies; women’s writing; Iceland; travel book
• ISSN: 1898-1593; 2353-9844
• DOI: 10.31261/https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2021.27.14

In this article the author examines the way women are presented in travel accounts about Iceland written by men (e.g. Daniel Vetter, Edmund Chojecki and Ferdynand Goetel) and explores women’s writing about Iceland in Polish literature. This topic has not been studied academically so far. The article presents a chronological and synthetic review of primary sources. Selected feminist literary criticism is used to take stock of the material. Depictions of the female experience and the poetics of female writing about Iceland appeared in the creative practice of Polish authors as late as 1977 (the first women’s account was by Halina Ogrodzińska), only to develop considerably (both quantitatively and qualitatively) in recent years in numerous travel books by Magdalena Anna Węcławiak and Agnieszka Rezler, among others, or a project on the borderline between visual arts and artist’s book by Sonia Rammer. This review shows that the practice of women’s writing about Iceland has developed in recent years and requires detailed analysis and interpretation. This will undoubtedly open new research perspectives entering also into other intersemiotic areas: photography, music (Hania Rani and her album Esja) or visual arts (Magdalena Armanda Kołakowska and Sonia Rammer).