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Introduction
JoannaWarmuzińska-Rogóżinvestigatesthechangingofthewriter’s
andthetranslator’straditionalpositions.ShediscussesthePolishtrans-
lationofLignesdefaille(Znamię)anddemonstratesthenewchallenges
fortranslationstudiesscholars,whoshouldrethinkthemodeloftrans-
lationprocess.Houston’stranslatorsshouldrelatetheirworknotto
theoriginal,buttothetwotextsbytheauthor,whichdoesnotmake
theirtaskeasier.
ThesectionOntheEnglish-LanguageLiteratureinCanadastartswith
AgnieszkaRzepa’sHonHouse,Home,CommunityandMemory:Revis-
itingJackHodgin’sResurrectionofJosephBourne.”JackHodgins’s1979
novelTheResurrectionofJosephBourneisusedtodiscusstheconstruction
oftheinterweavingdiscoursesofhome,community,andmemoryin
thetext:thediscourseswhichconstituteanenduringpreoccupationof
theauthor.ThefocusfallsonthetextualatemptstodevelopHhome”
asatranscendentalandspiritualconceptrootedintheliteralandthe
tangible—aboveallinthecommunity,thebody,aswellasingeographi-
calandhistoricalgivens.
InHIAPersonfromAnotherCulture’:AReadingofMargaretAt-
wood’sTheManfromMars”ZuzannaSzatanikinvestigatesthedivision
intotheorientandtheoccidentinAtwood’sshortstory.Thearticle’s
authorarguesagainstrejectionofAtwood’spostcolonialityandpays
meticulousatentionbothtotheprimarypowerpositionsofthetwo
maincharactersandoftheonesinthebackgroundandtorelativization
ofthosepositions.Shenoticesanumberofshifsintherelationship
betweentheoccidentandtheorientinTheManfromMars.
InAnnaCzarnowus’sHMargaretAtwood’sGenderedPastsinMoral
Disorder”theCanadianmetamorphosesofgenderrolesfromthe1950s
onwardsareexamined.Theyareseenontheonehandagainstsociologi-
calbackgroundandontheotheragainstMaryDouglas’santhropologi-
calideasofdisorderanddirt.Atwood’ssemi-autobiographicalcollec-
tionofshortstoriesrevealsthechangingimportanceofphysicaland
moralorderlinessintheconsecutivedecadesofthetwentiethcentury.
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