Gdy rozum śpi budzą się… potwory”. Monstrualne przestrzenie w prozie Izabeli Filipiak i Olgi Tokarczuk

The article puts a question about the significance of the monster figure understood as the epistemological metaphor of rebellious otherness in the context of power relation between the center and the margin. Referring to the Rosi Braidotti’s theory of nomadism, as well as to contemporary Polish women’s prose, the author asks if the notion of monster’s deformed body retains its subversive potential to undermine dominant, rationalist order of knowledge? If so, where – in what kind of cultural and textual spaces – the monstrous rebellions against the power of the “center” take place?