| The Kingdom of Insignificance: Miron Bialoszewski and the Quotidian, the Queer, and the Traumatic In one of the first scholarly book in English on Miron Białoszewski (1922-1983), Joanna Niżyńska illuminates the elusive prose of one of the most compelling and challenging postwar Polish writers. Niżyńska's study, exemplary in its use of theoretical concepts, introduces English-language readers to a preeminent voice of Polish literature. Niżyńska explores how a fusion of seemingly irreconcilable qualities, such as the traumatic and the everyday, imbues Białoszewski's writing with its idiosyncratic appeal. Joanna Niżyńska is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University. |