Przemieszczenia Eleonory Kalkowskiej

This article offers a critical discussion of Anna Dżabagina’s monograph Kalkowska: Biogeographia [Kalkowska: A Biogeography] (Warsaw 2020) in the context of the newest research on the work and life of the Polish-German author Eleonora Kalkowska. The reviewer discusses the influence of Dżabagina’s methodological inspirations – especially Exile Studies, geopoetics and feminist criticism – on the way the material is approached. She emphasizes Dżabagina’s extensive archive research, comments on her presentation and problematization of the sources, as well as her choice of historical and cultural contexts.  According to the reviewer, the greatest merit of the book is that it broadens and verifies what has been known about Kalkowska to date, and places her work and biography in the context of exile modernism.