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Polish Literature and National Identity: A Postcolonial Perspective

Polish Literature and National Identity: A Postcolonial Perspective

Polakowska, Agnieszka
Skorczewski, Dariusz

Hardcover

Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe, Book 23

Literary CriticismEastern European HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1580469787
ISBN13: 9781580469784
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Feb 15 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A postcolonial study of Polish literature from Romanticism to the twenty-first century

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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