Prescriptum: Women on the Road

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2021.27.01

Keywords:

journey, women travellers, women’s travel writing, reporting

Abstract

This bilingual issue which we are now submitting to the reader takes up the theme of broadly understood travelling, being on the road, wandering, both near (not far from home) and very distant (into unknown realms of time and space). Travelling is associated with discovering new places, getting to know people and cultures, gaining experience, sometimes also pursuing a goal along winding and difficult paths. At other times, travel becomes an end in itself; it can be a way of life in which movement and change are core values. Not all journeys presented in this volume serve the purpose of recreation. Some were caused by oppressive conditions and threats to life and livelihood, which result in emigration, alienation and sacrifices that leave their mark on many generations. An inseparable element of travelling is the risk taken by the explorer. However, as the presented collection of articles confirms, journeys often become a creative impulse that leads to discovering oneself and one’s own culture in contact with the people one meets, with their customs and the places one gets to know.

Author Biographies

Nina Augustynowicz, Universit y of Silesia in K atowice

NINA AUGUSTYNOWICZ – PhD, Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
Augustynowicz is a literary scholar who specialises in critical food studies. She has completed her PhD dissertation on the subject of conceptual metaphors of food in Victorian literature. She has published on the significance of eating in the works of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and in popular culture. Her current research continues to focus on the exploration of foodscapes, especially in terms of the reproduction of femininity through alimentary practices.

Maria Czempka-Wewióra, Universit y of Silesia in Katowice

MARIA CZEMPKA-WEWIÓRA – PhD, School of Polish Language and Culture, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
Her interests focus on cognitive cultural and glottodidactic issues, as well as the possibilities of using speech therapy theory and practice in the process of teaching Polish as a foreign language. She is the author of academic articles on the category of remembrance in language and literature and on teaching Polish as a foreign language. She has lectured at universities in Bulgaria, Germany, Slovakia, Ukraine and Italy. Since 2017, she has been a certified examiner for the State Commission for the Certification of Proficiency in Polish as a Foreign Language.

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Published

2021-06-30

How to Cite

Augustynowicz, N., & Czempka-Wewióra, M. (2021). Prescriptum: Women on the Road. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 27(1), 13–28. https://doi.org/10.31261/https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2021.27.01

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 1 (2021): A Suitcase of Her Own: Women and Travel

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Prescriptum

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