@ARTICLE{Majewska_Joanna_Homo_2021,
 author={Majewska, Joanna},
 volume={vol. LXX},
 number={No 3},
 pages={539-554},
 journal={Slavia Orientalis},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2021},
 publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN},
 abstract={The aim of this article is to analyze the relationships between the characters of Serhij Zhadan’s novels and their place, in terms of geopoetics. Voroshilovgrad ( Ворошиловград) and The Orphanage ( Iнтернат) are the two novels that have been chosen to compare the characters in the context of the war in the Donbas, which can be considered a kind of censorship of the people. The methodological tools employed here are geopoetics, as determined by Elżbieta Rybicka. Further elements were recalled, such as the sensory space category, the reciprocal relationships between literature and geographical space and Mikolaj Madurowicz’s theory of homo localis, which is a visualisation of the relationship between the human and place. Moreover, the relationships between the characters and the place in the two mentioned texts were confronted with the recent study of Maria Lewicka on the psychology of place conducted in the Donbas. As the analysis shows, Zhadan’s characters develop either a weak or unusual bond with place. This was heavily affected by the historical background and its homo sovieticus phenomenon. The place alone seen through the sensory space category reflects a human attitude, thus fulfilling a broader view. As described in The Orphanage, the war becomes an indicator for this relationship, a moment of trial, whose results are currently unknown. A transversal view of change from a homo sovieticus to homo localis attitude emerges from the comparison of the relationships between Voroshilovgrad and The Orphanage, and their places.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={Homo Localis – Relationships Between the Characters of Serhij Zhadan’s Novels and “Place”, in Terms of Geopoetics},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121259/PDF-MASTER/2021-03-SOR-05-Majewska.pdf},
 keywords={Zhadan, geopoetics, the Donbas, homo localis, sensory space},
}