Skorczewski Polish Literature and National Identity

A Postcolonial Perspective
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-668-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 23, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe

A postcolonial study of Polish literature from Romanticism to the twenty-first century

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skorczewski, Dariusz

Weitere Mitwirkende

Polakowska, Agnieszka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Skorczewski Dariusz:
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.