Polish literature and national identity : a postcolonial perspective /

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"Although for half a century East-Central Europe was part of the Soviet empire and was subject to its "civilizing" mission, its colonial status escaped the attention of most postcolonial critics. It still remains a blank spot in global studies of postcolonialism. In Polish Literature...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Skórczewski, Dariusz (Author)
Other Authors: Polakowska, Agnieszka (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Polaco
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2020.
Series:Rochester studies in East and Central Europe.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism.
Group identity.
Polish literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Polish literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Social Identification
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme.
Identité collective.
Littérature polonaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature polonaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
postcolonialism.
group identity.
European history.
Political science & theory.
Marxism & Communism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
Civilization
Group identity
Polish literature
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism in literature
Poland > Civilization.
Pologne > Civilisation.
Poland
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: How It All Began
  • Through the Lens of Humanism, with a View to Transcendence
  • Postcolonialism in Poland
  • National Identity in a Postcolonial Framework: Necessary Clarifications and Opening Suggestions
  • Literature as Compensation: Comprador Intelligentsia vis-à-vis the Hegemonic Discourse-Preliminary Theoretical Remarks
  • Confronting the Romantic Legacy
  • The Natives' Exclusion by the Empire's Poet? (Adam Mickiewicz, The Crimean Sonnets)
  • Identity as an Object of Inquiry (Paweł Huelle's Castorp)
  • The (East-)Central European Complex (Andrzej Stasiuk, On the Road to Babadag and
  • Fado)
  • Colonized Poland, Orientalized Poland: Postcolonial Theory and the "Other Europe"
  • Slavic Issues with Identity: Marginal Notes to Maria Janion's Uncanny Slavdom
  • The Melancholia of Borderlands Discourse
  • Afterword: Three Warnings.

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