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Polish Literature and National Identity - A Postcolonial Perspective

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

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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

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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.

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

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Authors Agnieszka Polakowska, Dariusz Skorczewski, Professor Dariusz (Author) Skorczewski, Dariusz Skórczewski
Assisted by Agnieszka Polakowska (Translation)
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.05.2020
 
EAN 9781580469784
ISBN 978-1-58046-978-4
No. of pages 352
Dimensions 234 mm x 158 mm x 28 mm
Weight 738 g
Series Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe
Rochester Studies in East and
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

Englisch, Polen, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)

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