Dariusz Skorczewski

Polish Literature and National Identity (eBook, ePUB)

A Postcolonial Perspective
Übersetzer: Polakowska, Agnieszka

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For nearly half a century East-Central Europe was part of the Soviet empire and was subject to its "civilizing" mission. Despite its colonial status, this part of the world has escaped the attention of most postcolonial critics and remains a blank spot in global studies of postcolonialism. Dariusz Skorczewski is among the first scholars to apply postcolonial thought to Polish realities, at the same time modifying the theoretical framework developed by other scholars of postcolonialism. Polish Literature and National Identity reveals how the experiences of foreign domination and the history of empire have shaped contemporary Polish culture and society.

The book, newly translated from the Polish, introduces Anglophone audiences to the potential implications of postcolonial studies on an understanding of Poland's unique historical position within Europe. Skorczewski explores transformations of national identity as reflected in Polish literature and critical discourse from Romanticism to the twenty-first century. The narrative thus tackles questions surrounding Poland's postcolonial status in contemporary East-CentralEurope, a region where globalization and cosmopolitanism clash with resurgent national sentiments and where predictions about a speedy transition to a postnational era now seem premature.

DARIUSZ SKORCZEWSKI is associate professor of Polish literature at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787449565
• Artikelnr.: 61363267

Autorenporträt

Dariusz Skórczewski, Ph.D. Hab., is Assistant Professor of Polish literature at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (see Profile) where he is also head of cultural anthropology program in the Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Literature. In 2001-2004 and 2006-2007 as a Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow he was a visiting professor of Polish Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and University of Illinois at Chicago. He has lectured at Georgetown (USA), Toronto (Canada), Bloomington (USA), Renmin and Beijing University of Foreign Studies (China), Bochum and Köln (Germany), and at numerous academic and cultural institutions in Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: How It All Began Through the Lens of Humanism, with a View to
Transcendence Postcolonialism in Poland National Identity in a Postcolonial
Framework Literature as Compensation Confronting the Romantic Legacy The
Natives' Exclusion by the Empire's Poet? (Adam Mickiewicz, The Crimean
Sonnets) Identity as an Object of Inquiry (Pawel 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