Published: 2023-06-29

Poetry of Open Wounds. Teresa Ferenc’s Stigmatexts

Katarzyna Szopa Logo ORCID
Section: interpretations – exegeses – analyses
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.13390

Abstract

The article is an attempt at reading the poetry of Teresa Ferenc through the prism of feminist politics of mourning. Using Hélène Cixous’s neologism “stigmatext,” I argue that the figure of an “open wound” constitutes Ferenc’s poetic imagination. This figure refers not only to the tragic event of pacification of Sochy – Ferenc’s family village – but also to the specifically understood relation with mother as is conceived in our culture.
Motherhood functions here as a synecdoche of stigmatized otherness. From this point of view, poetry of open wounds emerges as an integral element of Ferenc’s ethical program, which is opposed to the phallogocentric logic of war, death, and destruction.

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Szopa, K. (2023). Poetry of Open Wounds. Teresa Ferenc’s Stigmatexts. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (46), 185–206. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.13390

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Er(r)go 46 (1/2023)

No. 46 (2023)
Published: 2023-07-03


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

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University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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