Więcej-niż-ludzka-społeczność. Literackie obrazowanie czarnobylskiej natury w perspektywie heterotopii afektywnej

This article examines the literary visualizations of the Chernobyl wildness within the theoretical framework which combines the concept of affective heterotopia, formulated by Aleksandra Wójtowicz, the approach of environmental humanities and a notion of community encompassing the social lives of non-human beings (along the lines of Anna Tshing’s ‘more-than-human-sociality’). A survey of some Chernobyl-related texts, including Svetlana Alexievich’s Chernobyl Prayer, is intended to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed methodology in analyzing the whole range of affective heterotopias. As each of them is grounded in its peculiar historical and social contexts, their subsequent readings need to take full account of their location in time and space.