Review article
https://doi.org/10.15291/csi.4056
Spatial Categories in the Works of Joanna Rapacka
Magdalena Dyras
orcid.org/0000-0003-2694-0212
; Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Abstract
In the works of Joanna Rapacka, issues of spatiality occupy a privileged place. As the first among the Polish researchers of Croatian literature and culture, she paid particular attention to the characteristics and history of individual regions. Rapacka tried to understand the meaning of regionalism and its impact on identity and a sense of belonging to a community. She pointed out the importance of border areas and their indisputable significance. Joanna Rapacka was also engaged in “understanding the city” of Dubrovnik and describing the forces that shaped and conditioned its culture. In her works, she pointed out the importance of understanding time in space and the new possibilities of creating relationships with space. She treated the aforesaid human attitude towards spatial categories as a kind of cultural practice. In her works, she successfully applied a new language of description which is characteristic for cultural orientation in literary research.
Keywords
space; culture; regionalism; border; border areas
Hrčak ID:
288383
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Publication date:
24.12.2022.
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