The Bad Child A Maria Janion Reader

"The remarkable creativity, energy, and erudition of Maria Janion, one of Poland's most important left-wing feminist critics, shine forth in these essays carefully curated and translated by Marta Figlerowicz." - Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago

"Maria Janion's writing is foundational to so many currents of contemporary Central European thought - around nations and nationalism, gender and genre, everyday politics and the political writ large - that her invisibility in English has long struck those of us privileged to know her work as a tragedy, if not a crime. The Bad Child, however, suggests another possibility: that Janion has simply awaited an editor, translator, and scholar equal to the task of encompassing her. She has that, at last, in Marta Figlerowicz. This book belongs on the shelf of every humanist." - Benjamin Paloff, author of Worlds Apart: Genre and the Ethics of Representing Camps, Ghettos, and Besieged Cities