TY - JOUR N2 - This article deals with literary pathography, i.e. texts which purport to project rage or a mental disorder, and use narrative strategies adopted specifically for that purpose. The analysis is focused on two novels by Aleksandra Zielińska, Przypadek Alicji (Alicja’s Case) and Bura i szał (Bura and Rage) treated as literary representations of the protagonists' mental condition. The literary character of these 'records' is revealed by multiple intertextual tropes and poetic devices that deconstruct the cultural stereotype of female rage. Consequently, Aleksandra Zielińska's novels should be seen as projections of a fractured female subject (un sujet divisé) fixed on her somatic vulnerability, driven by an urge to cry out her affliction, trauma and rage, unease about woman-to-woman relations, and the pressure of erratic affective impulses. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116956/PDF/2020-02-RL-04-Szewczyk.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116956 PY - 2020 IS - No 2 (359) EP - 180 DO - 10.24425/rl.2020.133846 KW - Polish literature of the 21st century KW - women's fiction KW - pathography KW - mental disorders KW - affect KW - female rage KW - Aleksandra Zielińska (b. 1989) A1 - Szewczyk, Joanna PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka PB - Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki DA - 2020.11.24 T1 - Affect – defect – rage: Writing mania and writing about mania – narratives of female rage in the fiction of Aleksandra Zielińska SP - 165 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116956 T2 - Ruch Literacki ER -