Ewelina Adamik
Ewelina Adamik
Title: How Do We Write About the “Anthropocene Water”? Hydrofeminism in the Poetry of Małgorzata Lebda
Abstract: The last decade of Polish poetry illustrates the complex image between body and water. My paper presents several poems written by Małgorzata Lebda, included in the poetry volume Mer de Glace that shed light on female corporeality situated in a hydrological cyrcle, emphasizing the water flow from one living being to another in the Anthropocene. I intend to situate these poems in a hydrofeminist narrative. Astrida Neimanis in her work Bodies of Water. Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology enters into dialogue with: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Luce Irigaray, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Donna Haraway, and Rosi Braidotti, emphasizing the importance of hydrofeminism in the Anthropocene. Neimanis’ feminist manifesto raises viable issues such as the presence of microplastic in fetal waters. The philosopher uses the term “Anthropocene water” concerning the relationship of living beings with water, which has been polluted by human activity. In my presentation, I’m analyze Lebda’s poems, through the lens of the discourse found in Bodies of Water. The figuration of Bodies of Water propose a realisation of bodies which form a hydrocommunity:
„[t]his conceptual, yet embodied commons that I’ve developed through a feminist posthuman phenomenology in the preceding chapters, seeks to get us out of the discrete individualism that underpins dominant Western theories of body-subject as discrete and autonomous. At the same time, it attends to the anthropocentrism of a nature/culture split, and offers a different kind of environmental imaginary that draws on a feminist lineage of relational ethics and distributed bodies1”.
Concluding, the purpose of my presentation will focus on the poetry involved in the climate catastrophe, linking female corporeality to the issue of water pollution.
- Neimanis, A. (2017), Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology, New York: Bloomsbury, 169–170.
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