In this book you will come across an authorial formula of extrahuman community and communication. The formula includes languages polemical with the narrow model of community that often excludes certain human and non-human beings. Alternative languages are sensitive to the codes of violence directed against animals so as to inclusively create a new interspecies non-antagonistic collectivity. What especially seeks such alternative languages is poetry. It not only represents the true character of existing relationships with animals or determines their shape but also can interfere in them, suspend the control of logocentric order, and, as a result, reduce the ambiguous human guardianship over animals that, in turn, requires the verification and questioning of the guardianships position in language. This publication treats Polish poetry as a statement equal withif not precursory forthe discursive calls for the abolition of anthropocentric dominance. The book proves that critical reflection on the language that consolidates the community redefines our attitude toward animals.
Acronyms
1 Introduction
Part 1: In Other Words
2 Introduction to the Post-Koiné
3 Who Are We and Who Are They? Notes about One Poem
4 Children and Fish (Poems Read in Voices)
Part 2: States of Exception, Status Quo
5 The Massacre of Istanbul Dogs (1911) and the Armenian Genocide (1915):
Forgotten Crimes
6 Through the Skin: about One Poem by Nelly Sachs
7 Judenjagd / Jew Hunt: Semantics and Diagnoses
8 Szlemiels: Animals in the Light of the Holocaust in Polish Childrens
Literature
9 The Life of Birds and Mammals After: the Holocaust Imaginarium in
Post-Anthropocentric Poetry after 1989
Part 3: Customs
10 Heresies: Restoration of Sensitivity (Tadeusz Nowak and Jerzy
Nowosielski)
11 Jerzy Ficowskis and Tadeusz Nowaks: the Species We Eat
12 Freedom Will Say: Blood
13 Female Abjects: Reading Justyna Bargielska and Joanna Mueller
1Motherhoods Kittens
2Litters
3Acephaly
4Apoptosis
5Pomiot: between the Subject and the Abject
6Female Poem
14 Laikas Lullabies: Post-Anthropocentric Representations of the First Dog
in Space
15 Outside the Law: about a Poem by Jerzy Kronhold
Part 4: The Common World: Beginning Anew
16 Ornithology, Ornithomancy: Sokoowski and Jerzy Ficowskis (Other) Birds
17 Translating from the Ornithological: on the Work of Micha Ksiek
18 Varieties of Delight
19 As Buddies (Piotr Sommer)
20 Conclusion: Post-Koiné Tropes
Bibliography
Index
Anita Jarzyna (1984), associate professor at the University of odz and lecturer at the Faculty of Artes Liberales of the University of Warsaw. Polish literary researcher. Her main field of interests are poetry, ecocriticism, animal studies and Holocaust studies. Author of three books and several essays.
