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Coming of age under martial law : the initiation novels of Poland's last communist generation /

"How do historical cataclysms affect the social conditioning of young people? How do individuals born in the same period come to form an identifiable "generation"? How do coming-of-age stories create a sense of community and generational identity? Coming of Age under Martial Law: The...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vasileva-Karagʹozova, Svetlana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University Of Rochester Press, 2015.
Series:Rochester studies in East and Central Europe ; v. 13.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The displaced generation of the children of martial law
  • Arrested maturation
  • Emasculated men, absent fathers
  • Exorcising mother-demons: the myth of the Polish mother revisited
  • At the roots of apostasy
  • Conclusion: kitschy parents, barbaric children.