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This article is twofold. In the first part, conditions of the rise and development of francophone studies in Poland are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the tensions which have marked the establishment of francophone literature courses in light of French culture's priviledged status in the academic milieu of Poland. The second part gives an account of the place given to Quebec literature in Polish universities (first and foremost at the University of Warsaw). Drawing on his experience, the author tackles questions concerning the planning of courses which deal specifically with Quebec literature, teaching methods at different levels, the broadening of a number of problematics, as well as the most current issues at play in the field of francophone/Quebec studies in Poland.
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This article analyses the art of Ana Mendieta, posing exile as a form of ruins. The dialectic of invisibility and visibility brings us to examine her art as a whole. It plays explicitly on what is lost and left behind, which is used to recover some form of origin. The artist's body is present in a setting that evokes architectural ruins. It is brought into an “auto-portrait in ruins”, where the ruins play on the romantic and the erotic. With Mendieta's art, we find ourselves at the antithesis of contemporary imagination, where ruins proliferate as superficial spectacle, whereas in Mendieta's work the notion of death and of absence play a discrete but powerful role.
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