Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica (Kraków)
Angaben zur Quelle:
24,1 (2021) 153-173
Keywords:
Zapolska, Gabriela,
;
Polish drama History and criticism
;
Jewish women in literature
;
Feminism in literature
;
Młoda Polska (Literary movement)
Abstract:
The article is an attempt to analyze Gabriela Zapolska’s drama entitled Nerwowa awantura [The Nervous Row], first published in 2012. The aim of the study is to answer the question whether Zapolska, while adding Peruwianka to other figures of Jewish women in her literary output, succumbed to popular opinions and provided her with stereotypical features. Or, on the contrary, perhaps she created her protagonist in an innovative, unprecedented way? The author is trying to answer the question whether the ideas of emancipation and feminist movements, so close to the writer, an attempt to fight the existing patriarchal order and Victorian bourgeois customs, also resonate in Nerwowa awantura. The analysis shows that there are no figures of Jewish women in Zapolska’s oeuvre who are clearly burdened with stereotypical traits or are completely free of them. However, none of the Jewish female characters created by the playwright is so independent, liberated and able to achieve her goals as Peruwianka, and as a result she can be perceived as a new figure on the literary and theatrical map.
Note:
With an English abstract.
DOI:
10.4467/24500100STJ.21.006.14608
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