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New records of birds in stomach contents of marine apex predators from the north Atlantic ocean and Mediterranean sea

García-Barcelona, S., Varela, J. L., Díez-García, I. P., Pauly-Salinas, M., Báez, J. C. · Life and Environment;

Predation on seabirds by sharks or other large predators is a poorly documented issue. The blue shark is a known generalist predator that feeds on seabirds, among other prey. Bluefin tuna is a well-studied species, but…

Fish diversity and structure in the Banco stream (Banco National Park, Ivory Coast)

Yao, A. A., Konan, M. K., Ouattara, A., Gourene, G. · Life and Environment;

The fish fauna in the Banco Stream has been investigated to update the inventory of the fish species in this stream in order to establish a basis for the conservation of these fish communities and their habitat. Seven s…

New locality records and morphological characterization of the invasive crab population Percnon gibbesi (Decapoda: Grapsoidea) in the extreme west of the gulf of Annaba (Algeria)

Menail, A. A., Rachedi, M., Derbal, F. · Life and Environment;

This study describes for the first time the presence of the subtropical crab Percnon gibbesi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) on east Algerian coasts. The morphology was studied on 102 individuals (10.2 ≤ length of carapace ≤ 4…

Insights into the ecology of Cryptorchestia garbinii on the shores of the urban lake Tegel (Berlin, Germany)

Fanini, L., Coleman, C. O., Lowry, J. K. · Life and Environment;

Talitrid amphipods find their optimal zonation in humid substrates, from the supralittoral of sandy beaches, to damp wracks cast up on river and lake banks, to the moist soil of gardens, and are known to adjust behavior…

Między amnezją i anamnezą Indywidualna pamięć historyczna wobec dominujących narracji

Firlej, Agata · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Szesnasty numer „Poznańskich Studiów Slawistycznych" dotyczy problemu jednostkowej pamięci historycznej i kulturowej oraz jej repre­zentacji wobec kolektywnego zapominania i odpominania. Na obszarze Słowiańszczyzny i Ba…

Gabriele D'Annunzio and Two Contemporary Art Projects

Badurina, Natka · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The centennnial of D'Annunzio's occupation of Rijeka (September 1919 - January 1921) confronts the professions dealing with it - historiography, memory studies, public history, cultural management - with the problem of…

Does the Form Serve Surviving? The Experience of Inheriting the Memory of the Holocaust and Psychological Functions of It's Narrativization in Prose of Magdalena Tulli

Адельгейм, Ирина · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article considers the experience of inheriting the traumatic memory in prose of Magdalena Tulli and autopsychotherapeutic functions of it's narrativization with the help of elements of psychotherapeutic methods (fam…

Jidišismy, bohemismy a prvky středoevropského jazykového svazu v paměti českých Němců: Slovník české němčiny jako příklad strážce jazykové a kulturní paměti

Balík, Štěpán · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In the collective memory of Czech Germans as it is saved and presented in published volumes of Sudetendeutsches Wörterbuch and its Catalogue in Gießen (Collegium Carolinum), there are not only many cases of Bohemisms, b…

The Land of Light, the Land of Shadow. About the Autobiographic Prose of Faruk Šehić

Bukwalt, Miłosz · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This article is the first attempt in Poland to examine the following issues in The Book of Una, the novel by Faruk Šehić: the problems of autobiographic memory, war trauma, going through the trauma situation in a creati…

Birth Rituals and Cultural Memory of Albanian Diaspora in Ukraine

Dugushina, Alexandra · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article is devoted to the traditional birth rituals of Albanians of Ukraine reflected in their cultural memory. Several migrations from the South Albania since XV-XVI century, following by different geographic, poli…

Spacing of Memory in The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon

Durić, Dejan · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The paper examines the memoir The Book of My Lives by Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon. This non-fiction work explores the author's childhood in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina before the collapse of Yugos…

The Importance of Being Present: A Comparative Reading of Montaigne, Baudelaire, Canetti and Desnica

Kalinić, Snežana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Even though they are different in many ways, Montaigne's essay "Of Experience", Baudelaire's poem "The Clock", Canetti's play The Numbered, and Desnica's novel The Springtimes of Ivan Galeb share a common trait. They al…

Dialogue Document Without a Dialogue: Current Debates on World War II in Croatia

Koren, Snježana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article deals with the recent controversies over the interpretations of World War II. The dominant narrative of World War II, which was created after 1945 to ensure the basis of legitimacy for the Yugoslav Communist…

Forgetting Strategies in (Re)structuring Collective Memory of Goranʼs Poem The Pit

Levanat-Peričić, Miranda · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Since the (re) structuring collective memory always implies particular political processes, in the case of Ivan Goran Kovačić and his narrative poem The Pit (Jama), the fundamental text of the Partisan canon of Croatian…

The Troubles with Memory - the Image of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Translation of Miljenko Jergović's Story Gurbet from The Second Kiss of Gita Danon

Maćkowiak-Kruczek, Maja · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The paper discusses the issue of cultural memory in a translation of literary text. Based on material of Miljenko Jergović's story Gurbet and its Polish translation, the article shows how elements of source cultural mem…

Language of Concealment and the Word for "G". Who Are the Heroes of the Queer Before Gay Time?

Nowak, Tomasz Łukasz · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Who (and what) was silent about the story told by heteronormative society? And how is the fragment of this story seen by "Others"? The article shows that the time of "queer before gay" includes (in Polish) not only well…

Modus exprese osobní paměti v literárním textu

Papoušek, Vladimír · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The main thesis of the author of this study is the opinion that so called personal memory transformed into the literary text is not in any case the representation of past reality of individual. So called personal memory…

Between Official Truth and Personal Memory: Oral Histories of Civilians and Soldiers in the Post-Yugoslav Wars 1991-1995

Petrović, Nebojša, Lazić, Aleksandra · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In times of violent conflicts, societies tend to promote narratives that enable successful coping with the situation. Official collective memory can thus provide foundation for a group's belonging, mobilization, persist…

"The body of recollection is a bee which stings me." Emancipatory practices of women's writing in Croatian literature of the 1980's

Protrka Štimec, Marina, Dakić, Mirela · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The book of essays Smrtni grijesi feminizma (The Deadly Sins of Feminism), written by Slavenka Drakulić, and Irena Vrkljan's novel Svila, škare (The Silk, the Shears), both published in 1984, became the samples of femin…

Česky psaná literatura jako medium paměti (a zapomnění) Hlučínska

Střelec, Karel · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The following paper is based on the concept of literature and mediality of memory (Astrid Erll) which deals with the function of literary texts in creating and maintaining collective memory. Using these methodological i…

"Running into Madness to Stay Sane": the Spirituality of Nature in the Autobiographical Texts of Female Prisoners from Goli Otok Prison Camp

Taczyńska, Katarzyna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The text concerns the camp for political prisoners established in 1949 in Yugoslavia on Goli Otok island. This theme was almost entirely absent from public discourse before the 1980s, and real changes and developments i…

The Memory of the "Revival Process" in the Newest Bulgarian Novel (2011-2017)

Yanev, Kristiyan · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The aim of this article is to explore the most recent literary representations of the so-called "Revival process" in Bulgarian history or the renaming of the Bulgarian Muslim and Turkish minorities in the 1980s in Zlatk…

Czesław Miłosz and Jerzy Andrzejewski: The Holocaust as Catholic Moral Crisis

Brenner, Rachel · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This article examines the wartime texts produced by two deeply believing Catholics - Jerzy Andrzejewski and Czesław Miłosz. In 1942, at the time of the deportations to Treblinka, these young but already prominent Warsaw…

Literary Agon in the Light of the Knight's Cultural Model

Skibska, Anna Maria · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This essay - actually a scientific article included in the frame composition - is devoted to the innovative interpretation of literary agon in terms of the knight ethos on the background of Harold Bloom's "anxiety of in…

Ruthenia - Ukraine, Belarus in the First Polish Republic

Drozdowski, Mariusz R. · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The reviewed book is the eleventh in the series devoted to the "Culture of the First Polish Republic in dialogue with Europe. Hermeneutics of values". This series is the aftermath of an interesting research project, who…