@ARTICLE{Piechota_Dariusz_Up_2020, author={Piechota, Dariusz}, number={No 3 (360)}, journal={Ruch Literacki}, pages={283-293}, howpublished={online}, year={2020}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka}, publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki}, abstract={Cwaniary (Female Wanglers) is not only a metatextual novel with numerous references to popular culture, but above all an important contribution to the discussion about the place and role of women in contemporary society. The author breaks with the nineteenth-century image of matka Polka, the Polish Mother, whose existence is confined to family and home. The creations and actions of the female wanglers in Cwaniary, outsiders who defy popular stereotypes by pursuing outré lifestyles, are underpinned with allusions to a nascent rebellion against patriarchy, systemic suppression of women's rights, and the resulting marginalization of women in society. Unfortunately, Poles still have great problems with openness to other cultures, nations, and non-heteronormative sexual orientations. The Poles, it seems, are caught between an irrational fear of disintegration of the structures of their relatively homogeneous society and the need to move on and reinvent themselves as the 'modern subjects' of critical theory. It is a choice between holding on to an anachronistic model of Polish culture founded on suppression or catching up with the 21st-century world of openness, diversity and multiculturalism.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Up for anything: “Cwaniary” by Sylwia Chutnik}, URL={http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/118108/PDF/2020-03-RL-04-Piechota.pdf}, doi={10.24425/rl.2020.135108}, keywords={Polish literature of the 21st century, feminist urban crime fiction, patriarchy, domestic violence, the modern subject, cultural change, Sylwia Chutnik (b. 1979)}, }