Virtual Polish Book Club. Meet the author - Katarzyna Jakubiak
Katarzyna Jakubiak's new book contains 24 essays, which, often going beyond the genre, are a record of the political and personal concerns and doubts of the author, an immigrant in the USA and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. "Obce stany" is a book about America and its incongruous faces that have become particularly visible since the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016. It is also a book about motherhood as a form of resistance against injustice, callousness, and divisions. Motherhood is here a figure meaning care not only for one's children but also for other people's children and for all those who are weaker and discriminated against; it is a concern practiced not only by mothers but also by fathers and childless people. Such a maternal ethos shapes the world of Jakubiak's essays, where scenes from family life and university literature classes are played out against the backdrop of political storms raging in America and the world, including Pennsylvania's local community.
Katarzyna Jakubiak is a writer, translator, and graduate of the Literary and Art School at the Faculty of Polish Studies of Jagiellonian University. She teaches contemporary American, British and post-colonial literature at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.
If you wish to participate, please register for this online meeting
The link will be sent to the participants 30 minutes before the event.
The program will be conducted in Polish.
